View on the coast at Deal

Charles Bentley British

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Bentley trained as an aquatint engraver of illustrated views and traveled through Britain seeking Picturesque subjects for his own accomplished watercolors. This luminous view represents Deal—a port on England's southeast coast of England where Julius Caesar landed when he invaded Britain. Beyond loosely sketched fishing nets, the contours of a rustic cottage lead the eye toward vessels beneath a soaring sky. Bentley exhibited a view of Deal at the Old Watercolour Society (formally, the Society of Painters in Water-Colours) in 1846, which suggests a similar date for the present work.

View on the coast at Deal, Charles Bentley (British, London 1805/1806–1854 London), Watercolor with touches of gouache (bodycolor) over graphite

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View on the coast at Deal, Charles Bentley (British, London 1805/1806–1854 London), Watercolor with touches of gouache (bodycolor) over graphite
View on the coast at Deal, Charles Bentley (British, London 1805/1806–1854 London), Watercolor with touches of gouache (bodycolor) over graphite

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