Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource : The Collection

Southern Coast of Guernsey

By John Brett

1875

Accession number: 1927P275

Oil on canvas.

Width: 1082 mm

Height: 612 mm

Coastal rock, sea and cloud-sky are the main elements of this landscape.

Information

This painting is a typical example of Brett's coastal landscapes. The brilliance and luminosity of the colours together with a loving observation of the rock formations are the most obvious legacy of Brett's Pre-Raphaelite association. An old label revels the title: 'Southern Coast of Guernsey fom the Cliff over Moulin Huet/ July 1875'.

Presented by the Council of Birmingham University, 1927.
© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	John Brett	-

Inscriptions

Type	Position(s)	Method	Date(s)	Notes
John Brett 1875 (bottom right centre)/ Windsor & Newton canvas stamp
Signature and date	bottom right	Painted	1875	Blue paint

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
-	Hong Kong Museum of Art	1984-10-20 - 1984-12-02

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
103	Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington	1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07
103	Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio	1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16
103	Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware	1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15
103	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas	1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02
103	High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia	1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10
103	Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery	1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29

Literature

Author(s)	Date(s)	Publisher	Pages
Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
Stephen Wildman	1995	Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia	p.297, pl.103