Sale 218 Lot 159

ENGLISH SCHOOL
late 19th century
Figures on a Stormy Shore, 1879
Watercolor
Signed ROBT GORDON ROE and dated 1879 lower left. A watercolor on paper depicting a dramatic coastal rescue scene with small figures on a sandy beach watching a rowing boat launch through breaking surf toward distant vessels beneath a towering, storm-laden sky, painted with fluid atmospheric washes in the tradition of 19th-century British marine watercolor, presented under a gilt mat in a gilt frame.
SIGHT (as mattted) 10 x 16.5 inches; frame: 20 x 23.5 inches
$180-200