Seven-year-old English artist compared to Picasso

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Kieron Williamson from the eastern English town of Holt has artistic skills that would be the envy of any serious painter and drawn comparisons to Pablo Picasso, a child prodigy who became one of the most recognized artists of the 20th century.

Inspired by his local Norfolk landscape, on the East Anglia coast, Williamson’s atmospheric pastels, watercolors and oil paintings — which are valued at up to 1,500 pounds each — show a maturity well beyond his years.

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