The Sea Grows Stormy

Name: ROBERT WEIR ALLAN (GLASGOW 1851-1942 LONDON)
Brand: The Sea Grows Stormy
Price: 2400.00 GBP
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ROBERT WEIR ALLAN (GLASGOW 1851-1942 LONDON)

The Sea Grows Stormy

ROBERT WEIR ALLAN (GLASGOW 1851-1942 LONDON)
The Sea Grows Stormy
signed 'Robert W. Allan' (lower left)
watercolour on paper laid on canvas on panel
24¹⁄₈ x 36 in. (61.3 x 91.5 cm.)

with J.B. Bennett & Sons, Glasgow & Ayr.
Anonymous sale; Waddington's, Toronto, 14 June 2018, lot 317, where purchased by the present owner.

London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, no. 1, catalogue not traced.

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Lot Essay

This watercolour is a preparatory study for a larger oil painting (with Martyn Gregory, 1981). It depicts a Dutch fishing harbour with herring boats sheltering from the storm, and was painted on Allan's 1888 trip to Holland with Archibald David Reid (1844-1908).