William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1900s.
Title: "The wind pipes up for dancing, The waves are clad in white". (The Isle of Man Coast). (Christian Johann Heinrich Heine).
Signed. Circa 1900. Inscribed with the title on the reverse.
Watercolour. Contained in it's very good original gilt gold leaf frame.
A wonderful atmospheric marine watercolour.
The pair to this watercolour is SA689651 ( See the end photos).
In very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery.
James Aitken was a maritime artist who produced coastal, river scenes, and landscape pieces. He worked in oils and watercolours and pencil.
He was born at Newburgh in Fifeshire, Scotland.
From 1894 he visited the Isle of Man, and liked it so much that he moved there permanently with his family in 1911. They took up residence in Port St. Mary.
James Aitken exhibited works at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Cambrian Society as well as in the provinces. He was a member of the Liverpool Academy of Arts. Today, he has works in the Manx Museum, the Liverpool Museum and the Royal Academy.
James Aitken was the father of John Ernest Aitken who went on to become an acclaimed artist in his own right.
William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1900s.
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James Aitken. "Isle of Man Coast". Coastal Marine Watercolour.
