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He was born in Beckside in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire (now part of Cumbria) and after attending school at Dendron until age eleven was apprenticed to his father as a cabinet-maker. In 1755 he went to Kendal to learn painting from a Cumberland artist by the name of Christopher Steele.









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