Hastings Beach
JAMES WEBB (1825-1895)
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Dimensions 45.00inch wide 30.00inch high (114.30 cm wide 76.20 cm high) 50.75inch framed width 36.00inch framed height (128.90 cm framed width 91.44 cm framed height) |
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Description Hastings Beach JAMES WEBB |
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Stock no.
D69408
Period
1825
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Literature D69408 A BUSY TIME ON HASTINGS BEACH JAMES WEBB 1825 - 1895 Signed & dated 1864 Oil on canvas 30 x 45 inches Framed size 36 x 50 ¾ inches James Webb was born at Chelsea, London. He became a painter of English and continental coastal views with a preference for dramatic scenery such as St Michaels Mount, Ischia, Bamburgh Castle and San Sebastian. He was influenced by Constable and Turner and his paintings of rocky coast scenes are strong with clearly defined outlines along with freshness and vigour. His paintings were also robust, and of a naturalistic style using a pale range of colours. It is however his views of the British and Dutch coasts and estuaries where Webb really excels. He exhibited 29 paintings at the Royal Academy from 1853-1888, 37 at the British Institute from 1852-1867, 38 Suffolk Street, 6 at the New Watercolour Society and 1 at the Grosvenor Gallery. Webb also exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, the New Watercolour Society and it is known that 18 paintings were exhibited at various other exhibitions. Webb died in London in 1895. Works in Public Collections: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Birmingham Art Gallery, City Art Gallery, Glasgow; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; Tate Gallery, London; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth; Bristol Art Gallery; Liverpool Museum; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Phoenix Museum of Art; Reading Art Gallery; Laing Art Gallery, Sheffield. Bibl: Dictionary of Sea Painters - E. H. H Archibald Dictionary of British Marine Painters Victorian Painters - Christopher Wood Provenance: Frost & Reed |
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