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| | Biography for: William Agnew |
 | | William Agnew was an art dealer in his father's firm of art dealers and print publishers, Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd. He had a brother, Thomas and a son, Morland. |
 | | William Agnew's father, who became a partner in the Manchester firm of Vittore Zanetti in 1817 and sole proprietor in 1835, specialised in genre and modern-life subjects by artists such as William Mulready, William Collins, William Powell Frith, Edwin Landseer and John Phillip, which he sold for high prices to wealthy middle class northern businessmen. |
 | | The son, William Agnew, became the most influential art dealer of his time, paying large sums of money for the works of established British artists like William Holman Hunt and Edward Burne-Jones, and encouraging younger artists such as Fred Walker to establish their careers. |
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