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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 oild. 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 painted landscape showing in the foreground a couple of planks crossing a small brook. Just beyond to people are clambering over a stile. In the distance is a lane going off into the distance flanked by fields. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | SMBC | Subjects: | Watercolour painting Black Country Fine arts Landscape Works on paper Rural areas | Temporal: | 1890 - 1950
20th Century | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Challis; Henry (1867 - 1962) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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