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Henry Caunter

The Portrait of Longevity The brush meets the canvas in the mid-nineteenth century, capturing a life that defies the typical limits of human endurance. In 1850, Henry Caunter turns his attention to Richard Bunclark, a man whose very existence challenges the passage of time. Bunclark is not a nobleman or a high-ranking official, but a woodman to the Druid estate at Ashburton. He is ninety-five years old, yet he remains a figure of vitali

ty. Caunter’s work from this period captures more than a likeness; it documents a specific, rugged reality of the Devon landscape and the people who shaped it. The portrait of Bunclark survives at Bradley Manor, a quiet witness to a man who lived to see the turn of the century. There is a certain weight to the depiction, a sense of the physical toll and the resilience required to work the woods for nearly a century. Caunter focuses on…