Beachcombers on the South Coast
Beachcombers on the South Coast
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Beachcombers on the South CoastWatercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour and scratching out18 by 25.7 cm., 7 1/4 by 10 1/4 in.Allen was born in Lambeth, the son of a schoolmaster, and educated at St. Paul's. He became a stage scenery painter at the Olympic Theatre with Clarkson Stanfield and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1826. The present work dates from circa 1830 and shows the influence of Charles Bentley.A similar seascape by Allen is in the British Museum (1872,0113.361).){kind=link}
Joseph William Allen (1803-1852)
Beachcombers on the South Coast
Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour and scratching out
18 by 25.7 cm., 7 1/4 by 10 1/4 in.
Allen was born in Lambeth, the son of a schoolmaster, and educated at St. Paul's. He became a stage scenery painter at the Olympic Theatre with Clarkson Stanfield and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1826. The present work dates from circa 1830 and shows the influence of Charles Bentley.
A similar seascape by Allen is in the British Museum (1872,0113.361).
Dimensions:
Height
18 cm / 7 "
Width
25.7 cm
/ 10 "