Bernard Walter Evans (1848-1922)
Whitby Abbey c.1887
Pencil and watercolour | 36.3 x 51.9 cm (whole object) | RCIN 922679
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A watercolour view of the ruined abbey of Whitby standing with a stormy sunset sky. Signed and inscribed at bottom right: Whitby Abbey. Evening / Bernard Evans.
Bernard Evans, a cousin of the Victorian novelist and writer George Eliot, was a landscape painter who studied at the Birmingham School of Art. In the 1880s he was based in Yorkshire and, according to The Magazine of Art (1892), painted a series of views of Yorkshire abbeys.Provenance
Possibly part of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Jubilee gift to Queen Victoria, 1887
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Medium and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Measurements
36.3 x 51.9 cm (whole object)
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RL 22679
