de Wint

British

/ də ˈwɪnt /

noun

Peter. 1784–1849, English landscape painter

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Compared with Greenwich Hospital or Wheatley's Donnybrook Fair, the watercolors of Louis Thomas Francia, Peter de Wint, and the great Joseph Mallord William Turner seem to have been dipped in the atmosphere.

From Time Magazine Archive

The study of pure landscape is best seen in the water-colour draughtsmen, Cotman, Cox, and de Wint; of landscape as a setting for the life of the people, in Fred Walker and George Mason.

From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by Blore, George Henry

Cotman saw the light in 1782, the year of Wilson's death; David Cox in 1783; Peter de Wint in 1784, and the short and brilliant life of Bonington began in 1801.

From Constable by Hind, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis)

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