The Chain Pier, Brighton, during the hurricane, 24 November 1824

Details

Henry George Hine, R.I. (1811-1895)
The Chain Pier, Brighton, during the hurricane, 24 November 1824
signed 'H.G. HINE' (lower left) and signed, inscribed and numbered '4 Chain Pier, Brighton during the Hurricane November 24th 1824. H.G. Hine Eland House, Hampstead' on the artist's exhibition label
watercolour with scratching out
9 x 27¼ in. (22.8 x 69.3 cm.)

Provenance

with Gorringes, East Sussex, 1981, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

London, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, 1890, no. 693.

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Lot Essay

This watercolour has been dated to the 1880s or 1890s, which must mean that it was executed not only long after the event represented but many years after Hine had left his native Brighton and settled in London. No doubt the hurricane had made a great impression on him as a boy of thirteen, and he recalls it here with an almost Turnerian sense of atmosphere and drama.

An account of the hurricane seems to appear in the Times, 30 November 1824, p. 2.

For another work by this artist see lot 18.

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