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Oil On
Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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Octavius Oakley
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1800-1867
was a Victorian watercolourist. Oakley initially worked for a cloth manufacturer near Leeds in Yorkshire. He developed into a specialist of portraits in watercolour and enjoyed the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. From living in Derby where he depicted rustic scenes, he moved to Leamington Spa in Warwickshire in 1836, but returned to London in the 1840s and worked there until his death, producing paintings of street scenes and gypsies and their lifestyle. His emphasis on gypsy paintings which he exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society earned him the name 'Gypsy Oakley'. Oakley met Thomas Baker in Leamington Spa where Baker was living and working and in 1841 |
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Young Street Musician (mk47) new2/Octavius Oakley-228575.jpg Painting ID:: 26140
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SPWC 1850
bt Thomas Fletcher,Manchester
Watercolour
510x340mm
Williamson Art Gallery,Birkenhead and Wirral Museums
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