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With ceaseless motion comes and goes the Tide,
Flowing, it fills the Channel vast and wide …
George Crabbe (1754–1832), from The Borough (1810)
This painting was a birthday gift from Pears to Britten in the late 1960s. It was painted in the same year as the founding of the New English Art Club, a group formed as an alternative to the Royal Academy, which celebrated the impressionism of Monet; in 1884 Steer returned from two years’ study at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Here perhaps is ‘the cold beginning of another day’ as the Borough returns to its business.
Oil on canvas: 54.7 x 59.5 cm. Mounted, framed: 75.6 x 80.6 cm. |
