camden

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Definition of camden in English English dictionary: A town name in various other locales; A habitational surname; A male given name, modern transferred use of the surname; An inner London borough comprising Hampstead, Holborn and St Pancras; a borough in North London which is a fashionable place to live; {i} name of cities in several states in the USA; modern transferred use of the surname; An English habitational surname; a city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Pittsburgh
Camden Town Group: Group of English painters formed in 1911. The artists met weekly in the studio of Walter Sickert (1860-1942), the group's prime inspiration, in a working-class area of London. The Camden Town artists utilized an Impressionist technique but were also open to the influence of Post-Impressionism. Their subject matter was derived from the everyday life of an English industrial town. Despite a somewhat expressive use of colour, their paintings remained representational and realistic, reflecting an interpretation of a modern aesthetic different from the more formally daring developments emerging in Paris at the same time. The Camden Town Group was absorbed in 1913 by the London Group, a combination of several smaller groups of contemporary English artists

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kämdın

/ˈkamdən/ /ˈkæmdən/

[ 'kam-d&n ] (biographical name.) From Old English campas (“enclosure”) + denu (“valley”).

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