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William Pearn
1855–1926
A British ship portraitist born in 1855 at 22 Fore Street, Polruan, on the Fowey estuary in Cornwall. Polruan lies within in the parish of St Wyllow, Lanteglos, where Pearn was baptised on 28th August and he was one of a large local family of seafarers going back to the seventeenth century.
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