- Artist
- Philip Wilson Steer 1860–1942
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 610 × 610 mm
frame: 780 × 790 × 110 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1947
- Reference
- N05766
Catalogue entry
N05766 FIGURES ON THE BEACH, WALBERSWICK c. 1888–9
Not inscribed.
Canvas, 24×24 (61×61).
Purchased from Humphrey Brooke (Knapping Fund) 1947.
Coll: Steer Sale, Christie's, 16 July 1942 (147), bt. Barbizon House; H. J. Paterson; Nicholson Gallery where purchased by Humphrey Brooke 1943.
Lit: MacColl, 1945, p.190, as painted 1888.
MacColl dates this work 1888, and either it or N05351 may be identical with ‘The Beach, Walberswick’ shown at the London Impressionists exhibition 1889.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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