The French painter of Spanish descent, Fernand Pelez (1848-1913), produced his most striking works in a series, the first of which portrays a gaunt, weary mother and her five children struggling to survive on the streets. The few extant works of Pelez remind me of certain paintings by Thomas Benjamin Kennington, about whom I wrote in May this year. Alas, very few of Pelez’s paintings have survived to this day.
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