Horses pulling a cart past a lime kiln, boats at sea beyond

Dayes became a student at the Royal Academy in 1780 and exhibited there from 1786-1804, and at the Society of Artists in 1790 and 1791. He is best remembered today as the artist who taught Thomas Girtin, and whose style of drawing landscape had a strong influence on the young J.M.W. Turner, and he therefore played an important role in guiding the future direction of English landscape painting.

For another work by Edward Dayes see lot 247.