Potterne is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England. The village is 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Devizes and lies on the A360 which links Devizes to Salisbury. The civil parish includes the hamlet of Potterne Wick.
Village centre
George Richmond was an English painter and portraitist. In his youth he was a member of The Ancients, a group of followers of William Blake. Later in life he established a career as a portrait painter, which included painting the portraits of the British gentry, nobility and royalty.
Christ and the Woman of Samaria (1825), one of Richmond's early works, influenced by the art of William Blake.
George Richmond An Old Calabrian Shepherd, oil on canvas, 1838, 24 x 20 ins (Private Collection, UK)
Watercolour of William Wilberforce, 1833.