Captain John Evans, Aberaeron

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about 1840 Portrait with the sitter holding a Bible. medium: oil on canvas technique: painting size: 76.2 x 63.5 Private Collection By an anonymous artist. Such portraits of a sea captain would normally show them identified with the tools of the trade, so the depiction of the sitter with a Bible is unusual.  (ObjectID=1311 ImageID=3142) Original File Name=_MG_2306Ae.jpg

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Peter Lord, The Visual Culture of Wales: Imaging the Nation (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000), p.186, 188.

Peter Lord, Interview with Peter Lord (Cwm Rheidol: 24 October 2007).

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