2956823 An Artist Painting by the Sea, 1887 (w/c & bodycolour on paper) by Inchbold, John William (1830-88); 17.15x34.93 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Inchbold was one of several young landscape artists to be inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites. The praise and patronage of Ruskin launched him on his career in 1855, but by the late 1850s he had moved away from the tenets of strict observation towards a more personal style and a looser, more experimental technique. Like the painter AW Hunt, he was also a poet, and he found it hard to make a living by his watercolours. In 1886?7 he made his last long painting tour, exploring the Mediterranean coast from the south of France to Naples; our painting dates from this trip. A lady paints at an easel, whilst their lunch basket waits for them hung high in the shade from a tree.); Photo 穢 The Maas Gallery, London.