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A fine quality watercolour by the artist Henry Towneley Green 1836 - 1899.Green was an English watercolour painter and illustrator who exhibited from 1855 at the Royal Academy and the New Society of Painters in Watercolour. He became a member of the New Watercolour Society in 1879.He was the brother of Charles Green R.I (1840-1898)a leading illustrator for The Graphic. The two brothers produced illustrations for Once a Week and the Cornhill Magazine edited by Thackeray and contributed to by Millais and Leighton. Towneley Green also exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Royal Society of Artists Birmingham,Fine Art Society, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool and the Manchester City Art Gallery.Green lived for a time in Hampstead London.