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area in 1890. There is a suggestion that he worked in Russia for a period on a commission for the Czar, but no firm evidence of this has been found. In c.1912 Britten was giving instruction at the
Glasgow School of Art: "Professor W. E. F. Britten superintends figure and landscape composition". He
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