William Anslow Thornley (1857-1935)
A busy shipping lane.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Size without frame: 15.4" x 11.4"
Size including frame: 21.3" x 17.4"
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A good, busy study of fishermen, commercial shipping, and an early steam and paddle ship off a South Coast port. Thornley often described, in pencil, the scene on the wooden stretcher piece but there is no evidence of that here. Unless obviously Yorkshire they are for the most part Southern!