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William Collins

1788–1847

Study of Trees
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14 artworks by William Collins
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Biography

William Collins (8 September 1788, London – 17 February 1847, London) was an English landscape and genre painter. His sentimental paintings of poor people enjoying nature became a posthumous high fashion, notably in the 1870s when his market price rose higher than Constable (Cromer Sands, £3780, 1872) and stayed so until 1894. Turner, his model, far exceeded him in value (The Grand Canal, Venice, sold to Vanderbilt in 1885 for £20,000).

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Artworks

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  • Happy as a King (replica)

    William Collins
    c.1836
  • Prawn Fishing

    William Collins
    1828, exhibited 1829
  • Early Morning - Cromer

    William Collins
    1845–6
  • Sunday Morning

    William Collins
    ?exhibited 1836
  • Eton on the Thames, for ‘The Rivers of England’ engraved by T. Lupton

    After William Collins
    1823
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  • Walmer Castle

    After William Collins
    1824
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  • Walmer Castle

    After William Collins
    1824
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  • Salcombe, Devonshire

    After William Collins
    1824
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