Anthony Sands (bap.1804, d.1883) had originally trained as a journeyman dyer but at some point abandoned his trade to become a painter of small portraits and a professional drawing master. In paintings from the late 1840s, when Anthony and [his son] Frederick worked together in Norwich, it can be difficult to distinguish between the styles of the up-and-coming son and the never very talented father. (http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw05619/Frederick-Sandys) Anthony Sands (1806-1883) - his son adopted the spelling with a 'y' in about 1855 - was originally a dyer with a firm of textile weavers in Norwich, but later became a drawing master and professional painter. Sandys painted at least two oil portraits of his father around 1850. (http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1906P813) undefined

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