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[Gathering Firewood] 1873
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1814 - 1886.
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[The Young Milkmaid]
http://www.sbwatercolours.co.uk/johnhenrymole.htm+ short biog.
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[A Hopeful Parting] 1861
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[The return of the flock, near Reigate, Surrey] 1859
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[The crofter's family] 1852
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A landscape and figure painter in oil and watercolour, as well as being a miniature painter. He was born in Alnwick, Northumberland and was the son of a cabinet maker and started work as a clerk. After painting miniatures for some time he turned to landscape and figure painting, although he continued with portrait painting also. By 1845 he exhibited a painting at the Royal Academy and eventually exhibited a total of 600 works at the New Watercolour Society by the time of his death in 1886.