© Exeter City Museums & Art Gallery
Dead Calm: Sunset at the Bight of Exmouth
Francis Danby
- Art Funded
- 1976
- Dimensions
- 76 x 106 cm
- Vendor
- Agnew's
Shows the dramatic effect of light was the first of his works to enter the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
Danby settled in Exeter 1847. Shows a familiar local scene, the coastline of Starcross with the pumping station tower of Brunel's Atmospheric Railway as seen from mouth of the Exe estuary.
Provenance
Thomas Miller, 1857; T Horrocks Miller, 1889; Thomas Pitt Miller, sold Christie's, 1946; Geoffrey Grigson.