Studio RT Ltd

Description

We are pleased to offer this lovely scenic watercolour by the Cornish artist Tracey Dyke Hart, the fifth son of the famous Cornish artist Thomas Hart FSA, who has signed it in the lower left hand corner. The watercolour depicts the view from a sea cave in Kynance Cove, The Lizard, looking across to Toad Rock,with cormorants on the rocks. There are several caves in Kynance Cove, some notable ones including The Drawing Room, The Parlour and the Ladies Bathing Pool, as named by the Victorians.

Tracey Dyke Hart was born in September 1870 and was taught his trade by his father. He painted watercolours of the Lizard and Cornish coastal scenes. The whole family lived at the house Thomas Hart built, called Polbrean, Landewednack, at The Lizard. Thomas and his wife Louisa nee Hallamore, had eleven children.

Tracey left the UK for Canada via New York in 1910 on the S.S. Adriatic He died in Vancouver, British Columbia on the 27th August, 1930.

The painting has been newly double mounted in two-tone acid-free mount board and has been newly framed in a 1 1/8 inch gilded wooden frame. It will be supplied with new brass hangers, new brass picture wire and will be ready to hang..

Image size: 13 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches - 35cm x 24.5cm

Frame size: 21 1/2 x 17 3/8 inches - 54.55cm x 44.25cm

Medium: Watercolours

Condition: Very good. There is no foxing or fading. The mounts and frame are new.