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| TIM BOBBIN Childs Plates, c.1840 |
£55 each |
John Collier, known as Tim Bobbin, 1708- 1786 in Urmston and lived his adult life just East of Rochdale town centre in Milnrow, where he was a schoolteacher.
A painter, caricaturist and satirica840l satirist, he was also a dialect poet and writer who styled himself as the Lancashire Hogarth. And like Hogarth, his paintings and prints are comic subversions of what was happening politically and socially at the time.
Collier’s work is biting satire and it is not just isolated to the landed gentry, but also concerned with what was happening with the working classes. It deals with all levels of society.
If I’m honest, I don’t know how to describe the paintings, they’re just very unique. He was self-taught and they’re very individual and certainly very identifiable as being by him. There’s definitely a grotesque element to a lot of them.
att. William Smith, Stockton. c.140 |
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