Gathering Seaweed
Oil Painting
ca. 1836 (painted)
ca. 1836 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Frederick Richard Lee (1798-1879) entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1818 after retiring from the army on the grounds of ill-health. During his lifetime he exhibited 171 landscapes at the Royal Academy, 131 at the British Institute and 24 at the Society of British Artists. He mainly painted views of Devon, which was where he was born, but also elsewhere in England, Wales and Scotland. This particular painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1836 and is possibly of the Lincolnshire coast.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Gathering Seaweed (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting on canvas entitled 'Gathering Seaweed' by Frederick Richard Lee. Great Britain, 1836. |
| Physical description | Top half of picture is sky, the bottom half shows the sea and a beach disapperaing off into the distance. In the left foreground a man and woman gather seaweed next to a cart with two horses harnessed to it. The cart is already heavily loaded with seaweed. Another woman with a basket on her back and a net in her right hand walks with her back to the viewer toward the distance. Beyond her are other figures walking on the beach, varying distances away, and another cart by the water's edge. Behind and to the left of the cart in the foreground is a stone-built ou- crop over which the sails of boats on the water on it's other side can be seen. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | (signed and dated) |
| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | Frederick Richard Lee (1798-1879) entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1818 after retiring from the army on the grounds of ill-health. During his lifetime he exhibited 171 landscapes at the Royal Academy, 131 at the British Institute and 24 at the Society of British Artists. He mainly painted views of Devon, which was where he was born, but also elsewhere in England, Wales and Scotland. This particular painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1836 and is possibly of the Lincolnshire coast. |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 155 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FA.107[O] |
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| Record created | May 16, 2006 |
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