Dead Calm: Sunset at the Bight of Exmouth

Francis Danby (1793 - 1861)

Royal Albert Memorial Museum

1855

Shows the dramatic effect of light was the first of his works to enter the Royal Albert Memorial Museum. Danby settled in Exeter 1847. Shows a familiar local scene, the coastline of Starcross with the pumping station tower of Brunel's Atmospheric Railway as seen from mouth of the Exe estuary.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 76 x 106 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £1750 ( Total: £7,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1976
• Vendor: Agnew's

Provenance

Thomas Miller, 1857; T Horrocks Miller, 1889; Thomas Pitt Miller, sold Christie's, 1946; Geoffrey Grigson.

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