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In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.

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Walter J. Phillips
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 25
Died: 1963
Died: July 5
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Wood Carver
Barton-upon-Humber
Lincolnshire
Walter Joseph Phillips
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