Off Reculvers
- About the work
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About the artist
Watercolour painter and engraver Charles Bentley is best-known for painting breezy scenes off the English coast. He was born in London; the son of a master carpenter. Bentley was apprenticed to printmaker Theodore Fielding and later spent time in Paris with Theodore’s brother, watercolourist Newton Fielding. From 1827 Bentley made a modest living as an engraver and illustrator. He was elected a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours (1843) and exhibited 209 works from 1834 to his death. He was a friend of artist William Callow; with whom he made several sketching trips, including a tour of Normandy (1841). The two shared a home in Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, from 1843 to 1846. Bentley died in Hampstead, at the age of 48.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- rowing boat, sailor (civilian), topography, seascape/coastal scene, seagull, sea, wave, church, sailboat, oar
- Materials & Techniques
- paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)
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Details
- Title
- Off Reculvers
- Date
- 1826
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- height: 40.00 cm, width: 60.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Gilbert Davis, July 1964
- Inscription
- bl: C. Bentley 1826
- GAC number
- 1761