Another house portrait finished. This is a typical Victorian townhouse built around 1900 in Mill Hill Road, West Cowes, initially inhabited by Harry Sheath, a worker at J Samuel Whites, the shipbuilding firm based in East and later West Cowes. Back in 1871 in Whippingham just outside of East Cowes, young Harry Ernest Sheath was born to parents Thomas Sheath (1840-) and Emma Eliza Sheath (nee Jolliffe Mursell) (1835-). Thomas, the eldest son of blacksmith (George Sheath) follo

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Preliminary marker pen sketches for a new commission. So loving the Winsor and Newton pigment markers! .

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Watercolour house portrait of a Cowes Victorian townhouse underway.