Staithes – Fishing Town on the Yorkshire coast

Location

Country: Uruguay
City: Montevideo
Place: British Embassy

Landscape painter James Baker Pyne was born in Bristol, where he worked as a self-taught artist until the age of 35. He gave painting lessons to William James Müller, who later became an artist of repute. In 1835 Pyne moved to London, exhibiting his work at the Royal Academy, British Institution and New Watercolour Society over two decades. In his early period he painted views and scenery around Bristol but after 1835 he travelled to Italy and elsewhere on the Continent, gathering material to work up into finished pictures. Pyne was an admirer and imitator of Turner; his dramatic effects and use of pale yellow tones reflecting Turner's influence. Today, his records of works produced from 1840 to 1868 are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Places

England, Staithes, Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, North Sea

Subjects

fishing boat, fisherman, topography, genre, seascape/coastal scene, stone/rock, beach, cliff, man, woman, basket, chimney, buoy

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

James Baker Pyne (1800 - 1870)

Title

Staithes – Fishing Town on the Yorkshire coast

Date

1847

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 55.50 cm, width: 75.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Sotheby's, 8 February 1956

Inscription

bl on rock: J B PYNE 1847

Provenance

Sold through Sotheby's, London, ‘Eighteenth Century and Modern Drawings and Paintings’ sale, on 8 February 1956 (Lot 105), as ‘The Scathes’; from which sale purchased by Richard Walker on behalf of the Ministry of Works

GAC number

3417