Samuel Prout (1783-1852) Beached Fishing Boat

Description

Artist : Samuel Prout
Title : Beached fishing boat
Medium: Pencil and watercolour
Size: 35.2×32.4cm
Frame :Wood
Restoration: None

Additional Information : 
Samuel Prout was famed primarily as a masterful watercolourist of architectural painting. His student. the great John Ruskin. praised him as a pioneer of accurate depictions of ruinous buildings. Until Prout. Ruskin claimed. ruins looked as though “broken down on purpose; what weeds they put on seemed put on for ornament.” He was aso a pioneer of lithography and was appointed ‘Painter in Water-Colours in Ordinary’ to the King George IV and Queen Victoria.