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Description: | Henry Challis was born in West Bromwich in 1867. He lived for 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 landscape painting of a small lodge house with a wooden fence across its frontage. Surrounding the house is a grove of trees. In the foreground is a pool with two children at the waters edge. One is sitting the other standing. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | SMBC | Subjects: | Watercolour painting Woodlands Black Country Fine arts Landscape Works on paper | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Challis; Henry (1867 - 1962) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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