Fresh Sea Breezes. Charles Parsons Knight, 1829-1897. 1860. Oil on canvas; monogrammed and dated 1862 verso 14 x 18 inches Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1860, no. 276. [Click on image to enlarge it.]
Commentary by the Maas Gallery
When this picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1860 it was well reviewed (The Atlas, 26 May 1860): ‘A simple little work, evidently by one who has sat watching the white sea gulls on the cliffs and the clouds as they rise over the blue waves in the horizon — those simple beauties of the coast, which are very forcibly suggested by the picture’, and the Royal Academy Review of 1860, p 31, identified the scene ‘probably a view of the Channel Islands Herme and Jetou [sic] taken from the island of Sark.’
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Last modified 21 April 2020