Awaiting the Tide, the Rother at Rye

David Murray

DESCRIPTION

This painting depicts a landscape at low tide waiting for the tide to come back into Rye in Rother.

DETAILS
  • Artist

    David Murray

  • Date

    c. 1885

  • Medium

    Oil on canvas

  • Object number

    701

  • Dimensions unframed

    100 × 155 cm

  • Dimensions framed

    115 × 165 cm

  • Place depicted

    Rye (2638909)

  • Marks

    Signed

  • Subject

    Seascape

ARTIST PROFILE

Sir David Murray RA HRSA, 1849-1933

Born in Glasgow, Murray spent eleven years in commerce there, studying part-time at Glasgow School of Art under Robert Greenlees before deciding to concentrate on his painting. A prolific artist, he specialised in landscape and seascape. He greatly admired the work of Constable and Corot. Complimenting Murray on his skill in the handling of paint, the Scottish art historian Sir James Caw wrote in 1908 that he was "gifted with a fine sense of colour, frank and unprejudiced vision, and genuine, if not deep, appreciation of the more brilliant aspects of Nature". In 1882 Murray followed in the footsteps of many Scottish painters by settling in London.