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Philip Wilson Steer

Philip Wilson Steer Dover Harbour oil painting on canvas
Dover Harbour
Painting ID::  37918
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Philip Wilson Steer Dover Harbour oil painting on canvas



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  Philip Wilson Steer
  English Painter, 1860-1942 was an English artist. Philip Wilson Steer was born in Birkenhead, the son of the portrait painter Philip Steer (1810-1871). After finding the examinations of the Civil Service too demanding, he became an artist in 1878. He studied at the Gloucester School of Art and then from 1880 to 1881 at the South Kensington Drawing Schools. He was rejected by the Royal Academy of Art and so studied in Paris between 1882 and 1884. He studied at the Acad??mie Julian, and then in the École des Beaux Arts under Cabanel. There he became one of the few English Impressionists. He is known for his landscapes, such as 'The Beach at Walberswick' (1890; Tate Gallery, London). He became a leader (with Walter Sickert) of the English Impressionist movement and was one of the founders of the New English Art Club in 1886. During the First World War, he was recruited by Lord Beaverbrook, the Minister of Information, to paint pictures of the Royal Navy.
  Dover Harbour
  mk129 1918 Steer was celebrated for his use of vibrant colour but this painting of Dover,the casle and the white cliffs is essentially a drab sepia image.

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