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    Sep 30, 2020 3 minutes
    Huon Mallalieu

    HOW much might Harry Frier have hoped to get for one of his watercolours of Taunton and Somerset? Even without inflation, he might have been pleasantly surprised that three offered together should make £1,430 in a recent sale at Lawrences of Crewkerne. Harry, the son of Robert, a landscape painter, was born in Edinburgh in 1849 and attended the Art School there. However, he was unable to make much of a living from his work and perhaps felt

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