George Wilfred Anthony was an English landscape painter

Landscape art

Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...

, art teacher and art critic.

He was born in Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

, a cousin of Henry Mark Anthony

Henry Mark Anthony

Henry Mark Anthony was an English landscape artist, often favourably compared to John Constable by critics...

, studied landscape painting under John Ralston (1789-1833), and afterwards under J. V. Barber of Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

. He moved to Preston, then Wigan

Wigan

Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It stands on the River Douglas, south-west of Bolton, north of Warrington and west-northwest of Manchester. Wigan is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town of Wigan had a total...

, finally settling in Manchester again as a teacher of art; he also ran a shop selling stationary

Stationary

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. Between 1827-1859, he exhibited 60 pictures, mostly watercolours landscapes, at the Royal Manchester Institution

Royal Manchester Institution

The Royal Manchester Institution was an English learned society founded on 1 October 1823 at a public meeting held in the Exchange Room by Manchester merchants, local artists and others keen to dispel the image of Manchester as a city lacking in culture and taste.The Institution was housed in a...

 (RMI). He was also an art-critic for the Manchester Guardian, writing under the pseudonym "Gabriel Tinto". He was one of the executors of the will of local painter Henry Liverseege

Henry Liverseege

Henry Liverseege was an English genre painter of literary and folklore subjects.-Early years:Henry Liverseege was born in Manchester, the son of Edmund Liverseege, a joiner. He was a weakly child who suffered from asthma and following his death in 1832 it was discovered that one of his lungs had...

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He died in Manchester on 14 November 1859, aged just 49.