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Artists Who Painted Birmingham Landscapes

Aston Park, Cattle and Figures Under Trees, 1804.

Pen and ink wash over pencil on paper. Artist: Charles Barber

Charles Vincent Barber (ca. 1784 – 1854) was an English landscape painter and art teacher.

He was born in Birmingham and baptised on 28 January 1784, the first son of Joseph Barber, the town's first drawing master. He studied at his father's art school where his fellow students included David Cox, who was to become a lifelong friend and with whom he was to regularly travel to North Wales to paint in later life

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A very atmospheric work!
 
Birmingham and the Old Asylum from the Lozells, 1826.
By: Henry Harris Lines.

“Henry Harris Lines was a landscape artist and archaeologist, and the eldest son of Birmingham artist and drawing master Samuel Lines. There are a number of Henry's works stored in the permanent collections of various provincial museums and art galleries including Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery. As well as at the Birmingham Society of Arts, Henry also exhibited at the Royal Academy, British Institution and Society of British Artists.” Wikipedia.

But from where was this picture sketched ?
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