James Campbell Noble RSA, Harbour With Sailboat & Figures

James Campbell Noble RSA, Harbour With Sailboat & FiguresThis early 20th century oil painting by Scottish artist James Campbell Noble RSA (1846 1913) depicts a harbour with a sailboat and figures. Noble was a prominent painter of landscapes and coastal views. Under an animated sky, bulging with a disparate array of passing clouds, three figures wait upon a wooden quay, while a sailboat passes by. Opposite, various industrial buildings cling to the harbourside, with smoke billowing from a chimney. The water

He possessed a keen eye for beauty

a coastal fortification completed seven years earlier

Artist Cornelis Jonson Van Ceulen The Younger has captured Wenman with sensitivity via exquisite handling

“Daughters of Jerusalem

“Have no care for tomorrow

with his socialist ideals

“[Rubens] has contrived to raise and animate his otherwise uninteresting views

Our reference: BRV1722

He was the son of Pastor Alfred de Rougemont and Baroness Franziska von Stain zu Lausnitz

1988 (lot 80)

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 31” x 37” / 78cm x 94cmYear of creation: c

Coats of this style became popular in the 1810s and were usually made of wool