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Lot description
William Lionel Wyllie, RA, British 1851-1931- On the beach, Berck-sur-Mer; pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with white on paper, signed 'W.L. Wyllie' (lower right), 19.2 x 32.5 cm. Provenance: Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 6 June 1997, lot 10 (£3,910). with Chris Beetles, London; where purchased by the present owner (A Distinguished British Private Collection) in 1997. Exhibited: London, Chris Beetles, 'The Victorians', October 1997, no.131. Note: Wyllie was a particularly accomplished and celebrated marine painter during Victorian and early 20th-century Britain, with his works currently in the collections of the Tate, the Royal Academy, the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum, and the National Museum of the Royal Navy, amongst others. From 1906, when he moved to Portsmouth, he became closely associated with the Royal Navy, so much so, indeed, that he was buried with full naval honours in 1931. In a moving ceremony, reminiscent of Nelson's state funeral in 1806, his body was rowed up Portsmouth Harbour in a naval cutter past battleships with dipped colours, bugles calling, and quaysides lined with dockyard workers. The present scene is something of a departure from Wyllie's typical oeuvre, depicting elegant figures on a beach in Berck-sur-Mer in the Pas-de-Calais region on the northern French coast.