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Arthur Spooner (1873–1962) was a British painter from

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. Spooner was born in

and trained at the Nottingham School of Art (now part of

Nottingham Trent University Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as a new university in 1992, although its roots go back to 1843 with the establishment of the Nottingham Government School of Design, w ...

) in the late 19th century. He later taught

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

and

figurative painting Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract ...

there in the early 20th century. Arthur Spooner was a member of the Nottingham Society of Artists. He painted ''The Goose Fair, Nottingham'' in 1926. The painting was sold at

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in 2004 and is displayed in

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1873 births 1962 deaths Artists from Nottingham Alumni of Nottingham Trent University Academics of Nottingham Trent University English landscape painters British genre painters 20th-century English painters English male painters 20th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub

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