“Seascape with English sailing boats with figures in the front of the composition”

Henry Redmore of Hull (British, 1820-1887)

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Oil on canvas

77x127 cm.

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Recognised as one of the finest 19th Century marine artists, Henry Redmore was born and lived in Hull where he specialised in painting shipping in the Humber estuary and off the Yorkshire coast, also in the harbours of Whitby and Scarborough. He also painted ports in Devon and Cornwall, and the estuaries of Holland and Germany. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and is in the permanent collection of the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.

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Ever since I was a child, I adored the works of Redmore, enjoying them on a saturday afternoon in my home town of Hull walking around Ferens Art Gallery and Hull’s Maritime Museum with Grandma. Since that time I have discovered lost Redmore works from all over Europe…