Malahide Sands, Stormy Weather
Artist
Nathaniel Hone
(1831 - 1917)
Datec.1898
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions66.8 x 91.5 cm
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Lane Bequest, 1913.
Object number108
DescriptionClose to his home at Malahide Hone could observe the daily, even hourly, changes of the weather, the ebbing and flowing of the tide, and the precise quality of light in the sky. The hastily-sketched foreground, the broken surfaces of the sea, and the rapidly-brushed and varied clouds indicate a blustery day and changing light. The lightness of touch might suggest that this is a small painting, yet it is one of Hone's large canvases. There is the faint suggestion of a figure walking on the beach, and perhaps seaweed gatherers, but Hone does not specify these. He observes a large cloud above the sea, lit up by a warm light, and beginning to disperse into the blue sky and the broken cloud above the horizon, with sunlight reflected off them. He captures the pinks, whites, pale mauves, golds and pale blues with great subtlety. (From: The Collection Revealed, Nathaniel Hone, p. 16)On View
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