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[/caption]Beautiful Edwardian watercolours of Bantham Beach, Bigbury on Sea, West Buckland and Hexdown Quay click here to view:
Frank Hewett fl. 1900 - 1925
Lived in West Buckland, near Bantham in South Devon. He painted many local seascapes and landscapes as well a charcoal portraits of local people. He formed and trained a local rifle volunteer group at the time of the first world war. He was an imposing, bearded man who would regularly be seen sketching on street corners in his familiar cape.
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