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Laundry Day, West Somerset

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John William North (1842-1924)

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The Maas Gallery

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Bridgeman Images

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In 1863 North moved to West Somerset where he was to live and paint for the rest of his life. On occasion, his friend Fred Walker, who died in 1875, would help him with the figures in his more ambitious watercolours and this early example may be one of them. Painted in bodycolour, the figures stand out against the watercolour landscape, in which North has employed every trick in his innovative tool-kit to render different effects of opacity, colour and texture. A woman brings laundry to others under an ancient tree, but, otherwise occupied, they don't seem pleased to see her.

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West Somerset, England

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