Shipwreck- Beached On The Shore


A very strong and impressive painting.
Signed Lower Middle "A H". Also has "AH+" in pencil on verso. Also possibly titled & dated lower right. The front AH is quite difficult to see but present. (see photo) The same with the possible title lower right. We believe the date may be 1847?

Artist: Alfred Herbert (English, 1820-1861) 
Medium: Watercolor 
Date: 1847? 
Style: Nautical 
Origin: British 
Size: SS 8 1/2 x 13 1/2" 
Frame: Gold Gilt Frame 15 x 20" 
Provenance: Hill House 
Subject Nautical 
Notes & Literature HERBERT, ALFRED (d. 1861), watercolour painter, was the son of a Thames waterman, who apprenticed him to a boatbuilder, but, yielding to a strong natural inclination, he became an artist. He began to exhibit with the Society of British Artists in 1844, and at the Royal Academy in 1847, his subjects being coast scenes, with fishing-boats and figures, and views in the lower reaches of the Thames. He sent an oil picture to Suffolk Street in 1855, and continued a regular contributor of water-colours at the Royal Academy until 1860. Though he was entirely self-taught, his works displayed remarkable vigour and genius, but they failed to meet with general appreciation, and he could only dispose of them to the dealers at extremely low prices. He died suddenly at the beginning of 1861, leaving a widow and seven children in distressed circumstances. The South Kensington Museum possesses two examples of his art.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Art Journal, 1861, p. 56; Redgrave's Cat. of Water-colours at South Kensington Museum.] 
Condition: No defects noted

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