Edward William Cooke, 1811 - 1880
Brig on Sands: Vessels on the Sands at Hastings
oil on canvas
21 ½ x 30 in. (54.6 x 76.2 cm.)
Private collection
Hastings and the sea. In the 13th century Hastings had suffered over the years from the lack of a natural harbour. Attempts were made to build a stone harbour during the reign of Elizabeth I, but the foundations were destroyed by the sea in terrible storms. The fishing boats were stored on and launched from the beach.
Edward William Cooke, R.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. (27 March 1811 – 4 January 1880) was an English landscape and marine painter, and gardener. Cooke was born in Pentonville, London. He was raised in the company of artists. He was a precocious draughtsman and a skilled engraver from an early age, displayed an equal preference for marine subjects and published his "Shipping and Craft" – a series of accomplished engravings – when he was 18, in 1829. Cooke began painting in oils in 1833, and first exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution in 1835, by which time his style was essentially formed.
He went on to travel and paint with great industry at home and abroad, indulging his love of the 17th-century Dutch marine artists with a visit to the Netherlands in 1837. He returned regularly over the next 23 years, studying the effects of the coastal landscape and light, as well as the works of the country's Old Masters, resulting in highly successful paintings. He went on to travel in Scandinavia, Spain, North Africa and, above all, to Venice. In 1858, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician. . More Edward William Cooke
J. M. W. Turner, (1775–1851)
The Fish Market at Hastings Beach, c. 1810
Oil on canvas
Height: 908.05 mm (35.75 in). Width: 1,206.5 mm (47.5 in)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. More on Joseph Mallord William Turner
Henry Bernahl, (1900 - 1984)
Beached boat
Oil on board
23.5 x 35.5 in
Private collection
Henry Bernahl (1900-1984) was born in England on November 10, 1900. He moved to Australia at age eleven and soon shipped out as a seaman. While at sea, he acquainted himself with most all ocean-going craft which were later to become his painting forte. After moving to San Francisco in 1927, he worked as a towboat skipper and as a guide on the Balclutha where he maintained a studio and gallery. For health reasons, he later settled in Nevada City, California where he remained until his death on February 27, 1984. More on Henry Bernahl
Joseph Edward Southall, R.W.S., R.B.S.A., N.E.A.C., 1861-1944
THE TRIPPERS, c. 1933 l.l.
Watercolour with pencil
16 by 25.5cm., 6¼ by 10in.
Private collection
A tripper is someone who visits a place for a short time, often with a large group of people:
Thousands of day trippers flock to resorts on the coast.
Joseph Edward Southall RWS NEAC RBSA (23 August 1861 – 6 November 1944) was an English painter associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.
A leading figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century revival of painting in tempera, Southall was the leader of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen—one of the last outposts of Romanticism in the visual arts, and an important link between the later Pre-Raphaelites and the turn of the century Slade Symbolists.
A lifelong Quaker, Southall was an active socialist and pacifist, initially as a radical member the Liberal Party and later of the Independent Labour Party.
Southall was elected an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) in 1898 and Member in 1902. He became President of the Society in 1939 and stayed in this post until his death in 1944. More on Joseph Edward Southall
Joseph Edward Southall, R.W.S., R.B.S.A., N.E.A.C., 1861-1944
A GOLDEN EVENING, SOUTHWOLD, c. 1926 l.r.
Tempera over pencil on linen
29.5 by 37cm., 11½ by 14½in.
Private collection
Southwold is a small town on the English North Sea coast in the Waveney district of Suffolk. Southwold's economy nowadays is mainly based on services, and particularly hotels, holiday accommodation, catering, and tourism. More on Southwold
Joseph Edward Southall, R.W.S., R.B.S.A., N.E.A.C., 1861-1944, see above
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