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visited its exhibition, and on some envious academician informing the latter, who had paused to admire Wilson's picture, that it was by an
Englishman, he was met by the retort: ‘Le talent n'a pas de pays.’ In 1805 he returned through Germany to London with the pictures (over fifty in number) which he
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