William Knight Keeling

This British watercolorist spent the 1830s sketching actors off-stage at London’s Drury Lane, then packed a single valise and kept drawing until his boots wore out in Seville. He loved the way a muleteer’s shadow cut across stucco walls at noon, exactly the kind of sharp, fleeting edge that watercolor sneaks into without blur. Look him up through the door of Spanish Muleteer (1862), a sheet of paper that feels like a postcard you’ve left too long in your pocket, still vivid after 160 years.