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| | Creative Quarters: The Art World in London 1700 to 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | John Constable, John Linnell, George Romney, Fredrick W. Watts, and William Blake sought the fresh air and quiet setting of the village of Hampstead. |
 | | As a new neighborhood for artists including Benjamin West, Thomas Stothard, Augustus Egg, John Partridge, John Flaxman, John Russell, and William P. Firth, Marylebone served as a fresh and fashionable setting for members of the Royal Academy. |
 | | Serving as an opposite setting from Chelsea, artists set up "exotic studio-houses" in Kensington and made the area a high society showplace to display their work to the public. |
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