Coastal Scene with Beached Boats in Foreground
Samuel Prout
early–mid 19th century
Medium
Watercolor
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 7/16 × 19 5/8 in. (34.1 × 49.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1964
Accession Number
64.682.5
Tags
Boats
About the Artist
Samuel Prout · 1783–1852
Samuel Prout was born in Plymouth in 1783, the son of a naval outfitter, and grew up in a port city whose seafront and trading life attuned him to architecture, boats, and the textures of a working world. He moved to London in 1803 and initially struggled to establish himself, producing marine subjects for print publishers and taking on pupils while refining the instructional drawing books for whi...