James Baker Pyne, RBA, British 1800-1870- Beach... Lot 440

James Baker Pyne, RBA, British 1800-1870- Beach scene with fisherfolk around a jetty; oil on canvas, signed and dated 'JB PYNE 34' (lower left), 86.5 x 133 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: In his early years, Pyne was a member of the Bristol School of artists and a close follower of Francis Danby (1793-1861). From 1835 onwards, he travelled extensively on the Continent and in Italy, gathering material to work up into finished pictures. The present view is one which Pyne depicted on various occasions, with a different version of the same scene, produced on a much smaller scale, held in the collection of Touchstones, Rochdale [717], where it is entitled 'Norwegian Scene'.