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John White Abbott was born and educated in Exeter, where he also practised as a surgeon. Through his uncle, James White, he met Francis Towne who initially gave him drawing lessons and later became a sketching companion. Although White Abbott exhibited annually at the Royal Academy between 1793 and 1805, he never gave up his profession as a surgeon. In 1771 he made his only extended tour out of the West Country travelling through Derbyshire, Lancashire, and the Lake District and up to Scotland.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:John_White_Abbott" class="extiw" title="w:en:John White Abbott"><span title="British painter and surgeon (1763-1851)">John White Abbott</span></a>
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