BRIGHTON FORESHORE BETWEEN WEST STREETAND THE WEST PIER-1885 In Gallery / PORTS, HARBOURS & HAVENS

BRIGHTON FORESHORE BETWEEN WEST STREETAND THE WEST PIER-1885

Though not a port, Brighton was busy with craft along the shore and going to and from the pier. In the painting the conditions are so calm that the brig in the foreground is swinging slowly on her mooring and she is able to set almost all her sails to dry. Behind her, a fishing vessel, catching the morning light in her sails, is ghosting slowly by. At the beach,...