Friday, January 2, 2009

John Simmons - In the Wood


1861
Watercolour heightened with white and gum arabic
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Simmons is still little known. He painted in watercolour and in the 1860's and early 1870's painted a number of fantasy subjects often showing fairies or mythical beasts in woodland settings. Sometimes these are related to Shakespeare, sometimes to no known literary subject.

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