He spent time at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, as did Hambling.

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Freud, the son of an architect and older brother of the late broadcaster Clement Freud, went to the Central School of Art, in London and then to the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing and London's Goldsmiths College.

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One way to get to grips with the region is to enroll on a weekend course at the Irish School of Landscape Painting.

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Born in New York's Staten Island, Cropsey - a leading light of the 'Hudson River School' of landscape painting - showed regularly at the Royal Academy in the 1850s.

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Mr. Finkelstein landed in New York in the 1980s, just as a revival of decorative painting was hitting the U.S. He started his line of brushes and a school for decorative painting when he saw the lack of necessary equipment and training.

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Shell, a well-known Teacher in the Drawing and Painting school of Mr. Coe, in the New York University.

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" David Bomberg, a brilliant graduate of London's Slade School, who was painting admirably adventurous pictures of his own, remembered decades later that "the tense figure operating the Drill as if it were a Machine Gun" amounted to "a Prophetic Symbol of the impending war.

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In 2007, the museum undertook an extensive examination of the painting, previously attributed to "an anonymous Madrid School artist of the 17th Century", and came to the conclusion that it was an original work by Titian.

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The painting by the founder of the American art movement known as the Hudson River School was given to Seward when he was governor of New York in the early 1840s.

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In Heilongjiang province in the northeast, a survey of 100 nursery-school children showed that 90% took lessons in piano, electric organ, painting or dance.

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In his youth, Du was a student of music and drawing, and in 1986 went on to study and teach painting at the Southwest Art School in Sichuan, where he remains to this day.

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