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ORIGINAL/SIGNED WILLIAM STRANG PORTRAIT OF #1177637

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ORIGINAL/SIGNED WILLIAM STRANG PORTRAIT OF #1177637
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Original signed and dated Portrait of
James Wier
By:William Strang</em></td>
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Original signed and dated Portrait of
James Wier
By:William Strang

WILLIAM STRANG
Born in Dumbarton, Scotland, 13 February 1859

Died in Bournemouth, England, 12 April 1921


, English painter and engraver, was born at Dumbarton, N.B. the son of Peter Strang, builder.
He was educated at the Dumbarton Academy, and worked for fifteen months in the counting-house of a firm of shipbuilders. He went to London in 1875 when he was sixteen, and studied his art under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School for six years.
Strang became assistant master in the etching class, and himself followed this art with great success.
He was one of the original members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, and exhibited at their first exhibition in 1881. Some of his early plates were published in the Portfolio and other art magazines. He worked in many manners, etching, dry point, mezzotint, sand-ground mezzotint, and burin engraving, and invented a draw-burin of his own. Lithography and wood-cutting were also used by him to reproduce his abundant imaginings.
He cut a large woodengraving of a man ploughing, that has been published by the Art for Schools Association. A privately produced catalogue of his engraved work contains more than three hundred items. Amongst his earlier works "Tinkers," "St Jerome," "A Woman washing her Feet," an "Old Book-stall with a man lighting his pipe from a flare," and "The head of a Peasant Woman," on a sand-ground mezzotint, may ...
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#: 00029</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:MINT</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1909</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>

<tr><td>Height:28.75</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:21.75</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:ORIGINAL/SIGNED WILLIAM STRANG PORTRAIT OF</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:FRAMED/MATTED/SIGNED/DATED</td></tr>

<tr><td>Type:PORIGINAL PORTRAIT IN COLORED PENCIL </td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:No. Plainfield</td></tr>
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