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William Matthison Watercolour ‘ Evening Departure of Boats Whitby ‘
Graham Reed Fine Art
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William Matthison Watercolour ‘ Evening Departure of Boats Whitby ‘

1900 - 1920
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William Matthison fl 1874-1922.Painted rustic and coastal subjects.Exhibited 17 works at SS,some of them watercolours,titles including’An Anglers Haunt’,’An East Coast Fishing Town’ and Sunset at the Pier Steps,Whitby’.Address in Banbury,Oxfordshire. ‘Evening Departure of Boats Whitby’ signed watercolour,image size 19.5x 53.5 cms, framed size 39.5x74 cms.Original period frame with artists label verso

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Graham Reed Fine Art has dated this Whitby Harbour Watercolour Painting to the 1900s.

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William Matthison fl 1874-1922.Painted rustic and coastal subjects.
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Exhibited 17 works at SS,some of them watercolours,titles including’An Anglers Haunt’,’An East Coast Fishing Town’ and Sunset at the Pier Steps,Whitby’.
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Address in Banbury,Oxfordshire. ‘Evening Departure of Boats Whitby’ signed watercolour,image size 19.5x 53.5 cms, framed size 39.5x74 cms.Original period frame with artists label verso

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Graham Reed Fine Art has dated this Whitby Harbour Watercolour Painting to the 1900s.

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A watercolour painting depicting sailing boats in Whitby harbour against a backdrop of historic town buildings and a muted sky.
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Archive I A watercolour painting depicting sailing boats in Whitby harbour against a backdrop of historic town buildings and a muted sky.

William Matthison Watercolour ‘ Evening Departure of Boats Whitby ‘

Archive II A watercolour painting depicting sailing boats in Whitby harbour against a backdrop of historic town buildings and a muted sky. View II
Archive III A watercolour painting depicting sailing boats in Whitby harbour against a backdrop of historic town buildings and a muted sky. View III
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A watercolour painting depicting sailing boats in Whitby harbour against a backdrop of historic town buildings and a muted sky.
WILLIAM MATTHISON WATERCOLOUR ‘ EVENING DEPARTURE OF BOATS WHITBY ‘
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A watercolour painting depicting sailing boats in Whitby harbour against a backdrop of historic town buildings and a muted sky.
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Late 19th and early 20th-century British maritime watercolours often depicted bustling coastal ports, fishing vessels, and tonal atmospheric light, capturing the changing industrial and maritime heritage of coastal towns like Whitby.

Traditional watercolours were created using natural pigments dissolved in water and bound with gum arabic, applied in translucent layers onto heavy cotton or linen rag paper.

Authentic period watercolours exhibit natural paper age-toning, delicate pencil underdrawing, artist signatures in graphite or paint, and subtle pigment degradation rather than modern digital dot matrices.

Position the artwork above a wooden sideboard, console table, or mantelpiece, using simple modern framing or washed oak frames to complement coastal, minimalist, or traditional British aesthetics.

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