Charles Edward Dixon, 1872 - 1934
The Lower Pool, 1902
Watercolour
27 x 78 cm.
Private collection
The Pool of London is a stretch of the River Thames from London Bridge to below Limehouse.
Part of the Tideway of the Thames, the Pool was navigable by tall-masted vessels bringing coastal and later overseas goods—the wharves there were the original part of the Port of London. The Pool of London is divided into two parts, the Upper Pool and Lower Pool. The Upper Pool consists of the section between London Bridge and the Cherry Garden Pier in Bermondsey. The Lower Pool runs from the Cherry Garden Pier to Limekiln Creek. More on The Pool of London
Charles Edward Dixon (8 December 1872 - 12
September 1934) was a British maritime
painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose work was
highly successful and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy. Several of his
paintings are held by the National Maritime Museum and he was a regular
contributing artist to magazines and periodicals. He lived at Itchenor in
Sussex and died in 1934. More on Charles
Edward Dixon
Keith Snow, b. 1936
High Tide, The Lower Pool, River Thames, London
Oil on canvas
Size: 12” x 20” / 50.8cm x 30.5cm
Private collection
Keith Snow was born in London in 1936. He moved to New Zealand in the early 1970s, and is now based in Auckland.
Keith is primarily a marine artist, and whilst mostly focusing on subjects of a maritime nature, he also greatly enjoys producing landscapes and portraits.
His keen interest in all things nautical began in the late 1940s, when it was still possible to spot Thames Spritsail Barges working under full sail in the Thames and around East Anglia, and the history and nostalgia of such journeys is evident in his marine works. From mist-shrouded views of London Bridge to bright-skied action images of the Auckland Regatta, his works have a quality of timelessness about them. Similarly, based on the River Crouch and later Woodbridge, Keith had the opportunity to spend his younger years sailing small boats around the South East coast of England. In so doing he developed an interest in painting the local landscape, a passion that he continues to indulge to this day form his current location in Auckland. More on Keith Snow
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