Following his apprenticeship, Etty moved to which city?
York
London
Manchester
Bristol
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In London, William Etty took private art lessons from Opie and Fuseli. At the Royal Academy, he befriended the Scottish painters Wilkie and John Burnet, and won the Academy's gold medal with his painting of Telemachus Rescuing Antiope from the Fury of the Menelaus in 1809.
Brush Strokes of Genius: A Quiz on William Etty, the British Painting Pioneer
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