By contrast, his line drawings that accompany some of his early works are astonishingly simple, almost delicate.

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His early works are dreamy and hazy, looking more like impressionistic paintings than photographs due to extended exposure times and various dark room manipulations, which had purists griping that, with so much meddling, his works could not possibly be considered true photographs.

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Stylistically, his early Pre-Raphaelite works are less cohesive than Hunt's or Rossetti's because he could do so much so well.

WSJ: Victorian Avant-Garde | Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design | National Gallery of Art | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer

Even the untrained art critics, that were the prison staff, all saw an early talent and viewed his works at the San Quentin Prison Hobby Gift Store.

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And clearly captivated by muscular visions of the American West, judging by his collection of 650 works by 19th- and early-20th-century artists.

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The places that inspired Dylan Thomas - who was born in Swansea in 1914 and spent his early years there and Laugharne in Carmarthenshire where he wrote his later works, and also the Ceredigion countryside - will be the main focus for DT100.

BBC: Dylan Thomas

Those masterpieces also include the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and other classical composers, for which his affinity manifested itself early.

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