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Artists Who Painted Birmingham Landscapes

Edward Orlando Bowley (active 1840-1874) painted a picture of Witton Brook (see: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/bowley-edward-orlando-active-18401874 ). However the picture by Such given in Pedrocut's clipping (in #478) is titled "A View On Witton Brook" and is described as a winter scene - "the effect of a frost scene ... is one of the finest portions of the work; the looming misty appearance of the church spire and the towers of Aston Hall being almost magical."

The only picture I can find that might fit that bill is described as one of a "pair of Landscapes in Birmingham" :

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See: https://www.invaluable.com/artist/s...JMVmAec1HvYweNokjczW-MLhxBe2HbZw4cXk3XmEzRARl

I've digitally lightened the original a bit in this image (below) so the detail is easier to see:
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Is this the right picture??
 
I think you may well be on the right track there Neil. The 1851 census gives Edward Bowley living in Lichfield Road Aston, as an artist, landscape.

It could well be that Aris’s has got the wrong artist. Here is another of Bowley’s painting that may show Aston Church and Hall ?

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