- Museum number
- 1954,0302.1
- Description
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King Edward's Bay, Tynemouth; view out to sea, boats in distance, rocky cliff on r, on top, church in ruin and buildings, in foreground sandy beach, figures near boats, on left corner of building
Watercolour, with bodycolour
- Production date
- 1811-1890
- Dimensions
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Height: 251 millimetres
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Width: 353 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- There is a similar view of King Edward's Bay in the V&A. For other related works and for further information about Jacob Burnett (1825-1896), the original owner of this watercolour, see cat. entry on this drawing in Newcastle, Laing AG exh, 'Pre-Raphaelites - Painters and Patrons in the North East', 1989-90, No.108.
The label from the old mount was inscribed: 'Burnett, Collingwood House, Tynemouth' and 'King Edward's Bay. by W B Scott'. It was included in the 1887 Newcastle Industry Exhibition.
Gere 1994
The title was inscribed on an old label. King Edward's Bay is , near Tynemouth. Scott was based in Newcastle upon Tyne from 1845 to 1864.
Stainton 1985
William Bell Scott, the younger brother of the painter David Scott, whose life he wrote, trained at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh and moved to London in 1837. There he became associated with a group of young artists, including Dadd, Frith and Egg, known as 'The Clique'. In 1843 he was appointed Master of the newly-established Government School of Design in Newcastle. Like Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Scott was a poet as well as a painter, and his association with the Pre-Raphaelites stemmed from Rossetti's admiration for his poem 'The Year of the World' (1846). They became close friends (although they later quarrelled), but until 1864, when Bell returned to live in London, the fact that he was employed in Newcastle resulted in a certain degree of artistic isolation.
Scott travelled in Germany in the 1850s and works such as this watercolour of a coast scene near Newcastle, which probably dates from the late 1850s or early 1860s, and others of desolate seashores at twilight, seem to owe some debt to German Romantic painting. Scott's method of working was different from that adopted by the Pre-Raphaelites: he did not follow their practice of painting directly from nature, but his work can be seen as in some sense a parallel to theirs.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1958 Apr, BM, Eight centuries of landscape ... water-colours, Section 87
1985, BM, British Landscape Watercolours 1600-1860, no.178
1887 Newcastle, Newcastle Industry Exhibition
1989-90 Newcastle, Laing Art Gall., Pre-Raphelites
1991 Jan-Mar, Cleveland MA, Ohio, BM English Watercolours, no. 85
1991 Mar-June, N Carolina MA, BM English Watercolours, no. 85
1994-5 Sept-Jan, BM, Pre-Raphaelite Drawings, no.107
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1954,0302.1