Thomas Rose Miles, Daybreak After The Storm

Thomas Rose Miles, Daybreak After The StormThis late 19th century oil painting by British artist Thomas Rose Miles (1844 1916) depicts a fishing boat buffeted by a wild sea at daybreak. Trawlers battered by rolling waves, lifeboats struggling atop treacherous breakers, crews lost and stricken ejected from schooners. Thomas Rose Miles was obsessed with seaborne drama, each theatrical scene conjured from his active imagination. Described as probably the best nineteenth century marine artist at

upon examining the canvas under UV

A thought-provoking early 20th-century Danish interior scene depicting a young lady reading

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1910Labels & Inscriptions: 'John Wilson' framer's label on reverse

as if we’re sitting alongside him while he sketches in a dog-eared notebook

283 for ‘Temptation of Saint Anthony (1901)’

It’s a painting of two halves with our view split between the dense woodland on the right and the light blue sky on the left

She’s looking down upon it

She’s connected to its contents

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 37½” x 28” / 95cm x 72cmYear of creation: c

Gdanietz has rendered the scene superbly and the colours are extraordinary

Signed and framed