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Description: | Henry Challis was born in West Bromwich in 1867. He lived most of his life in the Bearwood and Smethwick area. He was an amateur painter in both watercolour and oil. He left school when he was 12. He started his career as a bookmaker and repairer and later became a general book dealer. He died in 1962 aged 94.
A painting of a scene of a blacksmith is shoeing a horse. They are in a workshop and there is a fawn and a dog looking on to the left. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | SMBC | Subjects: | Agriculture Black Country Fine arts Rural areas | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Challis; Henry (1867 - 1962) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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