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Etty painted this as his diploma piece, the work a new Royal Academician had to give the Academy. He had beaten John Constable by 18 votes to five for election, then set other projects aside to finish it for presentation in October 1828.
Etty painted this as his diploma piece, the work a new Royal Academician had to give the Academy. He had beaten John Constable by 18 votes to five for election, then set other projects aside to finish it for presentation in October 1828.































