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The artist James Smetham was #BornOnThisday 1821 in Yorkshire. A devout Methodist, he was admired by both Ruskin and Rossetti, and the latter might have helped with this painting of a gorgeously costumed, wistful-looking mandolin player https://victorianweb.org/painting/smetham/paintings/29.html