Signed lower left: E. ELLIS
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour,
stopping out and scratching out
328 x 559 mm.,
12 ¾ x 22 in.
Edwin
Ellis was born in Nottingham, but moved to London in 1867, to further his
career as a marine and landscape artist. He exhibited widely, not only at the
various galleries and institutions in London, including the Society of British
Artists (of which he became a member in 1875), the Royal Academy and Agnew’s,
but also further afield in Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham. He travelled
extensively throughout Britain as far afield as Cornwall, Northumberland,
Yorkshire, North Wales and the Channel Islands.