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Bletsoe Castle Bedfordshire

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Antique print published by Samuel Prout (1783 - 1852).(b Plymouth, 17 Sept 1783; d London, 10 Feb 1852). Painter, draughtsman and writer. Together with his fellow pupil Benjamin Robert Haydon, Prout was encouraged to study drawing by the headmaster of his grammar school in Plymouth. In 1801 he met the topographer and antiquarian John Britton, who, impressed with his work, invited him to London the following year to make drawings of antiquarian subjects and copy works of other artists, including Thomas Hearne, William Alexander and J. M. W. Turner.. He was Queen Victoria's drawing teacher and a leading light in early lithographs £30 c 1805 38 x 27 cm