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From: Wendy Lewis <>
Subject: [B'ham] Birmingham artists
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 18:30:03 +0100
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I have a distant relation who was quite a well-known portrait painter in
Birmingham in the late 1800s. His name was Jonathan PRATT and I believe he
was the secretary of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in the 1890s.

His son, Claude PRATT, was also an artist.

If anyone has any further information on either of these artists, I shall
be very pleased to hear from them.

Many thanks.

Wendy



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>From: Michele Le Resche <>
>
>I too have a great great uncle who was an artist- a portrait
>painter. We have tracked down a showing of one his works called Cain
>to one of the larger museums and all they could tell us was that it
>would have been loaned to them for the exhibit. but that they did
>not keep flyers or booklets of all the exhibited pieces.
>Being a portrait painter I suppose many of his works could be in
>family houses and private collections, but like Kate, if anyone knows
>of a directory of lesser known artists I too would be very interested.
>He lived in London, (Chelsea) Manchester but mostly here in Birmingham.
>Name Samuel Le Resche. 1926 -1900.
>
>Michele

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