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Robert Leslie Howey. "Coble , Runswick Bay". Marine Watercolour Painting.
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Robert Leslie Howey. "Coble , Runswick Bay". Marine Watercolour Painting.

1940 - 1960
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Artist: Robert Leslie Howey. (1900-1981). Seaton Carew.

Title: 'Coble at Runswick Bay, with Lady Palmer's Cottage'. North Yorkshire.

Signed. Circa 1950. Watercolour and gouache. Size: 14 1/2'x 17 1/2'. Framed size: 21 1/4'x 23 3/4'. Now cleaned and framed and in very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery. Trade enquiries welcome. For more info please contact us at:

Tel: 01677 424830

Mob: 07885 175279

Email: williamgreenwoodfineart@gmail.com

An excellent and strong example of his Yorkshire coast paintings.

Robert Leslie Howey was born in 1900 in Hartlepool. He was the son of the Staithes Group artist, John William Howey (1873 – 1938), who – although recognized by his peers as a serious artist – never practiced his art professionally, but remained employed by the gas and water board.__His son, Robert, seems to have had similar equivocations about a career in painting (although when young he cleaned his father’s brushes and befriended other Staithes artists – Rowland Hill and Mark Senior): he did not enter the West Hartlepool School of Art until he was in his thirties. He appears to have started his artistic life by drawing and sketching, visiting local beauty spots such as Runswick Bay and Whitby.

Howey exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Laing Gallery, Newcastle, the Redfern Gallery, London, and other provincial galleries; he also had a solo show in Hartlepool in 1949.

Physical Dimensions
Height
54cm (21.26")
Width
60.5cm (23.82")
Depth
3cm (1.18")
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William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this Marine Watercolour Painting to the 1950s.

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SA1203179
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Description
Artist: Robert Leslie Howey. (1900-1981). Seaton Carew.

Title: 'Coble at Runswick Bay, with Lady Palmer's Cottage'. North Yorkshire.

Signed. Circa 1950. Watercolour and gouache. Size: 14 1/2'x 17 1/2'. Framed size: 21 1/4'x 23 3/4'. Now cleaned and framed and in very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery. Trade enquiries welcome. For more info please contact us at:

fig 1. A marine watercolour painting depicting fishermen on a shore beside a traditional coble boat with a whitewashed cottage on a cliff top in the background.
fig 1. Robert Leslie Howey. "Coble , Runswick Bay". Marine Watercolour Painting.

Tel: 01677 424830

Mob: 07885 175279

Email: williamgreenwoodfineart@gmail.com

An excellent and strong example of his Yorkshire coast paintings.

Robert Leslie Howey was born in 1900 in Hartlepool. He was the son of the Staithes Group artist, John William Howey (1873 – 1938), who – although recognized by his peers as a serious artist – never practiced his art professionally, but remained employed by the gas and water board.__His son, Robert, seems to have had similar equivocations about a career in painting (although when young he cleaned his father’s brushes and befriended other Staithes artists – Rowland Hill and Mark Senior): he did not enter the West Hartlepool School of Art until he was in his thirties.

He appears to have started his artistic life by drawing and sketching, visiting local beauty spots such as Runswick Bay and Whitby.
William Greenwood Fine Art

Howey exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Laing Gallery, Newcastle, the Redfern Gallery, London, and other provincial galleries; he also had a solo show in Hartlepool in 1949.

Height
54cm (21.26")
Width
60.5cm (23.82")
Depth
3cm (1.18")
Date of Manufacture

William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this Marine Watercolour Painting to the 1950s.

Reference Numbers
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SA1203179
Dealers Internal Ref
wgp
William Greenwood Fine Art
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Archive I A marine watercolour painting depicting fishermen on a shore beside a traditional coble boat with a whitewashed cottage on a cliff top in the background.

Robert Leslie Howey. "Coble , Runswick Bay". Marine Watercolour Painting.

Archive II A marine watercolour painting depicting fishermen on a shore beside a traditional coble boat with a whitewashed cottage on a cliff top in the background. View II
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A marine watercolour painting depicting fishermen on a shore beside a traditional coble boat with a whitewashed cottage on a cliff top in the background.
Robert Leslie Howey. "Coble , Runswick Bay". Marine Watercolour Painting.
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