Big Sky Fine Art has dated this Antique Maritime Watercolour Painting to the 1890s.
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English ( b.1863 - d.1934 ).
A Moray Firth Zulu Fishing Boat Unloading Herring In Whitby, 1893.
Watercolour On Paper.
Signed And Dated 1893 Lower Left.
Image size 13.8 inches x 20.5 inches ( 35cm x 52cm ).
Frame size 22.4 inches x 28.9 inches ( 57cm x 73.5cm ).
The watercolour is presented and supplied in a glazed frame dating from the 1960s (which is shown in these photographs). New hanging fittings and cord have replaced the aged items to ensure security. The framing materials are in good condition.
This antique watercolour painting is in very good condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The watercolour is signed and dated lower left.
Frances Emily Nesbitt was an accomplished English watercolour painter, illustrator and travel writer, born in Wolverhampton in 1863. She studied at the Ipswich School of Art and became known for her atmospheric landscapes, architectural subjects, coastal scenes and depictions of everyday life. An adventurous and independent woman, she travelled extensively throughout Europe, North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, frequently accompanied by her widowed mother. An accomplished linguist with a keen interest in history and architecture, she recorded the places and people she encountered in numerous finely observed watercolours.
Nesbitt exhibited widely throughout her career, including at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Society of Women Artists, to which she was elected an Associate in 1899. In 1906, she published “Algeria and Tunis”, an accomplished travel account illustrated with her own watercolours, reflecting her extensive journeys through North Africa. Her paintings are distinguished by their confident draughtsmanship, sensitive use of colour and ability to capture the atmosphere and character of a place. Her considerable artistic achievements, extensive travels and published writing mark her as a particularly enterprising and independent figure among British women artists of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.
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A beautifully observed and atmospheric original watercolour by the English artist Frances Emily Nesbitt, depicting a busy fishing scene in the historic North Yorkshire port of Whitby in 1893.
This 1893 watercolour painting depicts the Moray fishing boat called “Maggie Main” who’s home port is Burghead. Records from 1899 show that “Maggie Main: carried the port letters and number INS983. The boat was classed as a Zulu 1st class with a length over keel of 50feet. The boat is recorded as being registered to a Mr Daniel Main of Hopeman, Both Burghead and Hopeman are settlements on the Moray Firth near Elgin with small harbours.
The surname Main occurs in high concentrations in the county of Morayshire (formerly known as Elginshire up until 1919). The Main family name is significant and synonymous with the fishing heritage along the Moray Firth.
The composition centres upon a traditional Scottish Zulu fishing boat, a distinctive sailing vessel associated with the Moray Firth herring fisheries.
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Big Sky Fine Art has dated this Antique Maritime Watercolour Painting to the 1890s.
This is an independent date report produced by Sellingantiques using its own proprietary system. The process uses the photographs shown on this page. The system is never told the date the dealer has declared. This report shows that the two dates corroborate.
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Frances Emily Nesbitt 1863 - 1934. A Moray Firth Zulu Fishing Boat Unloading Herring in Whitby, 1893. Framed Scottish Maritime Heritage Watercolour Painting.
