Study of fishermen near a rocky outcropping
c 1850. Pencil on cream wove paper, 3 x 4 3/8 inches (75 x 105 mm), adhered to a cream wove paper mount, signed in pencil on the mount beneath the image. With a partial sketch of tents on the verso with associated notations. Inscribed "S. Prout" in pencil in the lower right corner of the mount. Small light area of brown discoloration in the lower right corner, recto.
Samuel Prout was born in Plymouth in 1783 to Samuel Prout Senior, a naval outfitter, and Mary Cater, a homemaker; the fourth of fourteen children. Prout grew up in the countryside, and spent his summers as a youth sketching and painting the bucolic valleys, thatched cottages, water mills, and serene rivers in Devon.
Item number: 1399
Price: $125.00
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