Edward Kington Brice RBSA born 1860.Painter of figure subjects and genre.Born at Edgbaston,Birmingham.Studied at the Birmingham School of Art.Exhibited ‘ What is it?’ At the RA,1893 from a Manchester address.Also exhibited in the provinces,especially at the Royal Society ,Birmingham where he showed 43 works .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 waterco...