
Portrait of Rowley Smart
1925 · oil paint

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Pierre Adolphe Valette was a French Impressionist painter who spent most of his career in England. His most acclaimed paintings are urban landscapes of Manchester, now in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery. Today, he is chiefly remembered as L. S. Lowry's tutor.