View on the Exe near Topsham
Landscape painting in oil on canvas, ‘View on the Exe near Topsham’ by artist John Wallace Tucker, c.mid-19th Century. Tucker was born in 1808 and was an English landscape painter, who focused frequently on river or estuarine scenes. The painting here depicts a large-sailed clipper boat near a shoreline with a smaller, rowing-type boat in the foreground with a number of people working and surrounding it. In the far off distance there are more boats and buildings seen to the left of the painting.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 467/1997
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Paintings
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Common Name
- View on the Exe near Topsham
- Simple Name
- painting
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Person Initials
- John Wallace
- Production Person Surname
- Tucker
- Production Year Low
- 1840
- Production Year High
- 1860
