Object Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
British Watercolors |
Catalog Number |
2000.026.035 |
Title |
Foggy Day on the Thames |
Artist |
Walters, George Stanfield |
Object Name |
painting |
Description |
Foggy Day on the Thames no. 26 |
Provenance |
Purchased as part of the British watercolors collection 1966,67, in memorial of Gloria Dougherty, Dorothy Logan, and Lilian Ross. George Stanfield Walters was born in 1838 and died in 1924. A marine and coastal painter, he was grandson to ship portraitist Miles Walters, and son and pupil of Samuel Walters, who had served in the navy and was a marine painter living in Liverpool and Bootle. G.S. Walters moved to London in about 1864, was elected to the Society of British Artists in 1897. He was a prolific exhibitor, and he painted on the Channel coasts as well as landscapes in the Lake District, the Thames and Wales and scenes on the Venetian Lagoon. His work is sometimes on a very large scale and he has a penchant for pinks, russets and sunsets. He has exhibited at TheRoyal Society of British Artists. |
Medium |
watercolor on paper |
Dimensions |
H-12.5 W-19.5 inches |
Catalog date |
2000-02-17 |