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Yasemeen, “I Wontner Now”
Yasemeen from Arabian Nights (1919) English portrait painter William Clarke Wontner was born in Stockwell, Surrey, on 17 January 1857. Wontner received his earliest art education from his father, William Hoff Wontner, an architect, designer and renderer. Under his father’s … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, OilPainting, Paintings, Watercolours
Tagged Academic Classicism, Arabian Nights, Greco-Roman art style, Romanticism
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