Ruined Cottages, Pevensey Bay
This watercolour and gouache study was painted by Victorian artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906) in 1898. Painted with fluid, stylised brushstrokes, the work depicts white ruined cottages at Pevensey Bay, near Eastbourne in East Sussex. The vibrantly pigmented blue-wash sky is contrasted with two red brick chimneys or towers, while the foreground appears as an abstract landscape. Inscribed and dated to the verso. The sheet is mounted and framed.
Brabazon was born in Paris but moved to East Sussex in 1832, before attending Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics. After inheriting family estates from his elder brother, Brabazon was able to lead a life of travel, art study and painting, inspired by the works of artists such as Turner. He viewed himself as a gentleman amateur painter, so did not show or sell his work until his mid-seventies.
Brabazon was born in Paris but moved to East Sussex in 1832, before attending Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics. After inheriting family estates from his elder brother, Brabazon was able to lead a life of travel, art study and painting, inspired by the works of artists such as Turner. He viewed himself as a gentleman amateur painter, so did not show or sell his work until his mid-seventies.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 123/1936/2
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- watercolour and gouache on paper
- Common Name
- Ruined Cottages, Pevensey Bay
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Inscription Transcription
- Ruined Cottages - Coast Guard, Pevensey Bay 1898
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- London
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- 1898
- Production Person Initials
- Hercules Brabazon
- Production Person Surname
- Brabazon
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
