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Description: | Oil on canvas . Luny painted at least three views of St. Michael’s Mount. A version dated 1825 (now in the collection of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter) shows a ship before the Mount, struggling in rough seas, as the crew are rescued and taken ashore. An article of 1886 describes it as:
'A picture of high quality, in Luny’s best manner, though exhibiting his characteristic defects in the arrangement of the composition, as in the relative positions of the ship and Mount.'
The same could be said of this version, in which the ships are viewed against the dark Mount behind. Luny also painted similar views of the Mount in 1814 and in 1834 (almost certainly this work). The 1834 version was owned by William John Watts, the High Sheriff of Devon by 1889, who lived at Forde House, Newton Abbot. | Subjects: | shore vendor beach road fishmonger fishing boat anchor topography seascape/coastal scene woman basket castle man | Temporal: | 1834 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Thomas Luny | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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