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William Blundell Spence (13 January 1814 – 23 January 1900) was an English painter and art dealer.
Born in Drypool,
William Blundell Spence (13 January 1814 – 23 January 1900) was an English painter and art dealer.
Born in Drypool, Yorkshire
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, to noted entomologist William Spence
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and his wife Elizabeth Blundell, he spent the years 1826-1832 travelling abroad with his parents. In 1836 he settled in Florence
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, Italy, where he spent the rest of his life.
As a painter, he specialized, mainly painting Alpine landscapes. At the 1870 Exhibition of Fine Arts in Parma, he exhibited an oil: ''Bagni of Lucca''. Among other works are ''Dallo Porte Sante'' and ''La pensierosa''. At Florence, in 1882: ''Veduta della Marina''. In 1885, in the same city: ''Veduta del Chalet Plauta''.
Though not himself an entomologist, he joined the Entomological Society of London
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at its founding in 1833, and was noted as its longest-surviving original member.
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