'Margate' RMG PW2141, William Lionel Wyllie, circa 1890s

'margate' during the 1890s the dowdeswell galleries, london, held several exhibitions of wyllie's watercolours. In 1896 over a hundred coastal subjects were exhibited in “'salt-water studies', of 'sunshine, storms, and calms'”, and this atmospheric watercolour may have been among them. The reviewer of the 'athenæum' literary magazine commented that: 'in these the painter has, with incomparable skill, given us the sea in all her moods. The gradations and the atmosphere lack neither subtlety nor tenderness; and it is a supreme charm of mr wyllie's art that harmonies of tone, colour, and light dominate his most splendidly and sumptuously coloured drawings. . ' ‘athenæum’, no. 3573, april 18, 1896. 'margate'. Date: circa 1890s. Dimensions: Sheet: 270 x 424 mm; Mount: 481 mm x 633 mm. Collection: Fine art.