Cox: The Fish Market on the Beach at Hastings
As part of their Coastal Champions Boat Tour (a small fishing boat supporting local sustainable fishing), Greenpeace are holding a public meeting in Hastings on 25th March 2015 (See Greenpeace). I shall provide more details with a reminder nearer to the date.
The watercolour reproduced above is by David Cox, and was painted for the 1819 annual show of the Society of Painters in Watercolours, and is now in the USA; I believe at the Chazen Museum of Art in Maddison, Wisconsin. I am grateful for the image, many thanks.
David Cox (1783-1859), came from Birmingham and mostly painted in watercolours (also see my blog of 12 January), although he did produce oil on canvas paintings of All Saints Church in 1812, when he visited Hastings with his wife. Cox was particularly taken with the scenery of Hastings during that trip, and there are two of the All Saints paintings in the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
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