ORCHARDSON, WILLIAM QUILLER
- ORCHARDSON, WILLIAM QUILLER
English genre-painter, born in Edinburgh; his pictures are numerous, and among the best and most popular, "The Challenge," "The Queen of the Woods," "On Board the Bellerophon," "The Mariage de Convenance"; b. 1835.
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