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from Auction House Records. THE ENTRANCE TO THE HORSESHOE CLOISTER WITH THE WEST END OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Paul Sandby (1731 – 9 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.
Born in Nottingham, Sandby joined the topographical drawing room of the Board of Ordnance at the Tower of London in the early 1740s and in 1747 was tasked as chief draughtsman with mapping the remote Scottish Highlands - a "compleat and accurate survey of Scotland". While undertaki (showing 500 of 1984 characters). |
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