This early 20th-century oil painting by British artist Frank Dickson (1862-1936) depicts a coastal view with fishermen and a woman mending nets.Dickson hailed from Chester near Liverpool but moved to London after successfully gaining access to the Royal Academy. This was quite an achievement for a local lad and, as such, made the newspapers.“Success of a Chester Artist. In the list of successful students admitted to the Art Schools of the Royal Academy upon the result of competitive works sent in for examination at the Christmas term, we are glad to notice the name of Mr. Frank Dickson, a son of Alderman F. Arthur Dickson, of this city.”His style was predominantly traditional and often sentimental, but here we see something rather different. The colouring is bold, radiant, and glowing. While the brushwork is loose, spirited and joyful. In some respects, it’s more akin to the Impressionists than it is to typical English landscape painting.Produced in around 1920, Dickson...