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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Portrait of a boy, half-length, with a shuttlecock and bat, leaning on a ledge, in a painted oval
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William Keable or Keeble (c.1714-1774)
Born in East Anglia. A moderately successful painter of portraits and small conversation-pieces, a member of St. Martin’s Lane Academy 1754. He was patronized by a number of American Colonists traveling in London, particularly from Charleston, South Carolina. Two such works, the 1749 portraits of Mrs Benjamin Smith (1722-1760) and her brother-in-law Thomas Smith Jr (1719-1790), were exhibited in the Gibbes Museum of Ar (showing 500 of 1576 characters). |
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