Walter Duncan (1848-1932) was a

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painter and

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Biography

He was born in

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in 1848 to the artist

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and Berthia née Huggins, the daughter of British marine painter William John Huggins. He studied art at the

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and the

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and served a seven-year apprenticeship at the Royal Academy of Arts. In 1874, he was elected an Associate of the

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. Proud of this distinction, he sometimes appended "A.R.W.S." to his name when he signed his works. In 1871, he married Harriet Charlotte Florence Pigott née Condy (1846-1880), the daughter of the painter Nicholas Matthews Condy. After her death, he remarried the daughter of an officer stationed in the

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. This led to a two-year stay in

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. He died in 1932 in

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Works in museums

* ''Heathland Landscape'' in the

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. * ''Fanciulla nel bosco'' (1898) and ''Venditrice di fiori a St. Martin in the Fields'' (1919) in the Museo d'arte, Avellino. * ''The First Interview between Elizabeth Woodville and King Edward IV'' (1902) in the Royal Collection, London. * Various landscapes in the

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References

Bibliography

WRIGIT Christopher, GORDON Catherine Mary, SMITH Mary Peskett (2006)
“Walter Duncan”
in IDEM ''British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections'', New Haven 2006, Yale University Press, p. 310.

External links

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at artnet.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duncan, Walter 1848 births 1932 deaths People from the London Borough of Camden 19th-century English painters English male painters 20th-century English painters Painters from London 20th-century English male artists 19th-century English male artists