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| Title | The Wreckers | |
| Collection | New Art Gallery Walsall | |
| Artist | Leeuw, Alexis de (Belgian painter, active ca.1848) | |
| Date Earliest | probably about 1855 | |
| Date Latest | probably about 1880 | |
| Description | A melancholy seascape at sunset with two men on horseback dragging flotsam and jetsam from a ship that can be seen wrecked in the background under a dark, brooding sky. Both the foreground beach and the sea is treated in a thick impasto technique. | |
| Current Accession Number | P96/76 | |
| Subject | marine (shipwreck and wreckers) | |
| Measurements | 74.0 x 125 cm.0 cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Mrs E. A. Holmes after 1892. | |
| Rights Owner | The New Art Gallery Walsall | |
| Author | Dr Patricia Smyth | |