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Arthur Wilde Parsons, RWA (1854 – 1931)

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1902.

19¼” x 29½” (48.9 cm x 74.9 cm)

Arthur Wilde Parsons specialised in marine, coastal and landscape paintings in oils and watercolours. Although he lived and worked in the Bristol area throughout his life, he spent many a long summer painting in Cornwall, where his brother George was the vicar of Crantock, near Newquay. These visits had a profound influence on his work. A highly talented painter of ships and the sea, Parsons mastered, with increasing ease, the moods of changing weather and the swell of rolling waves off the Atlantic and English Channel coasts. He first exhibited his work in London as a teenager and he continued to exhibit regularly at the principal galleries throughout Britain. Parsons became a co-founder of The Bristol Savages art society in 1904 and its President four years later.