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Scenes of rural life - virtuous, innocent, sometimes slightly comical, sometimes sentimental, painted on small domestic scale, appealed to middle-class customers. The height of his success was in the 1850s-1870s, when his works were eagerly collected by
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of other industrial regions of the country. This feeling of public success was expressed in O'Neill's painting 'Public
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