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Woodlock (David, 1842-1929). A Small Canal by St Mark's Venice, watercolour, depicting a woman with a red umbrella standing on a balcony above a small canal by St Mark's in Venice, signed lower left, title and artist name in black in to gold mount, mount aperture 25 x 17 cm (9 7/8 x 6 3/4 ins), David Woodlock's own label with title handwritten in black ink, title and artist again in ink both to verso, presumably in artist's own hand, framed and glazed (44 x 36.5 cm) (Quantity: 1) David Woodlock trained at the Liverpool Academy of Arts, and then under John Finnie at Liverpool School of Art. In 1872 he helped found the Liver Sketching Club and would also become a member of the Liverpool Academy of Arts. In 1880 he began to exhibit in London, he showed at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1888 and in 1897 became President of the Liver Sketching Club. Throughout the latter part of 1890s Woodlock travelled to Venice and North Africa.