Shipping off Cowes, Isle of Wight
Shipping off Cowes, Isle of Wight
Edward Duncan, R.W.S. (1803-1882)
Shipping off Cowes, Isle of Wight
Signed lower left
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour and scratching out
213 x 311 mm., 8 ¼ x 12 ¼ in.
Duncan trained as an aquatint engraver under the Havells and was introduced to marine painting which became his speciality by William Huggins whose pictures he engraved and whose daughter he married. His marine scenes usually depict south coast views often in rough seas. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and prinicipally the Old and New Watercolour Societies from 1830 until 1882