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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Truth - 'A little child having lowered her bucket into an old and disused well was surprised to see therein standing the very goddess of truth herself who having shewn her face in a glass and filled her bucket with sweet water from her well, straightaway
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George William Joy:
Born in Dublin, George Joy learned painting and drawing at London's South Kensington School of Art, and at the Royal Academy schools under John Everett Millais, before going to Paris for two years in 1868 to study portraiture and narrative history painting under Charles Francois Jalabert.
Returning to London, he successfully submitted Laodamia and Joan of Arc to the Royal Academy, following these narrative pictures with a series of patriotic works (eg (showing 500 of 1957 characters). |
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