Graham Reed Fine Art has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
.Elected RBSA,1920. This sensitively painted watercolour shows a fisherman painting a float ,numbered ‘4 Runswick’.The model Rob Hutton may well be the Rob Hutton recorded as being born in Runswick 1814 and who died in nearby Middlesborough in 1889. In the late 1880s,Runswick Bay was the site of an art colony and was much painted by the Staithes School of Artists which included the well known artists Laura Knight ,Mark Senior and Frederick William Jackson. ‘ ‘His Mark ‘ signed watercolour,image size 55x38cms,framed size 74.5x57cms.Inscribed verso ‘His Mark -Model Rob Hutton Runswick’
Graham Reed Fine Art has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
Previously I worked in london as a chartered surveyor and have been dealing in paintings for nearly thirty years.
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Edward Kington Brice Watercolour of Runswick Bay Interest ‘ His Mark’
