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WEDMORE, FREDERICK (1844— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 466 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WEDMORE, See also:FREDERICK (1844— ) , See also:English See also:art critic and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Richmond See also:Hill, See also:Clifton, on the 9th of See also:July 1844, the eldest son of See also:Thomas Wedmore of See also:Druids Stoke, Stoke See also:Bishop. His See also:family were See also:Quakers, and he was educated at a Quaker private school and then in See also:Lausanne and See also:Paris. After a See also:short experience of journalism in See also:Bristol he came to See also:London in 1868, and began to write for the Spectator. His See also:early See also:works included two novels, but the best examples of his careful and See also:artistic See also:prose are perhaps to be found in his volumes of short stories, Pastorals of See also:France (1877), Renunciations (1893), Orgeas and Miradou (1896), reprinted in 1905 as A See also:Dream of See also:Provence. In 'goo he published another novel, The Collapse of the Penitent. As early as 1878 he had begun a See also:long connexion with the London See also:Standard as art critic. He began his studies on See also:etching with a noteworthy See also:paper in the Nineteenth See also:Century (1877—1878) on the etchings of See also:Charles See also:Meryon. This was followed by The Four Masters of Etching (1883), with See also:original etchings by See also:Sir F. S. See also:Haden, Jules See also:Ferdinand Jacque-mart, J. M. See also:Whistler, and See also:Alphonse See also:Legros; Etching in See also:England (189J); an English edition (1894) of E.

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Michel's See also:Rembrandt; and a study and a See also:catalogue of Whistler's Etchings (1899). His other works include Studies in English Art (2 vols., 1876—1880), The Masters of Genre See also:Painting (1880), English See also:Water See also:Colour (1902), See also:Turner and See also:Ruskin ( 2 vols., 1900).

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