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“[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.”

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Francis Meadow Sutcliffe
Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

Francis Meadow Sutcliffe was a British photographer renowned for his captures of natural landscapes and industrial scenes. His work had a profound impact on the photographic world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more

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