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Sir James Thornhill, an English painter in the Baroque tradition, was born at Melcombe Regis, Dorset, in 1676. Although his early training remains obscure, he clearly had a knowledge of architecture and may have mastered the painting techniques of the Italian and French artists then working in England.
He excelled in large-scale decoration of palace interiors. His first major commission was the ceiling decoration (1707-14) of the Painted Hall at Greenwich, and it was followed by commissi (showing 500 of 1557 characters). |
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