Core Record |
| Title |
Fishwives by the Sea |
| Collection |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Artist |
Blommers, Bernardus Johannes (Dutch artist, 1845-1914) |
| Date Earliest |
about 1875 |
| Date Latest |
probably 1888 |
| Signed |
yes |
| Description |
A beach scene with four fishwives in costume, grouped around a woman who is selling fish. The fish are lying in the sand. In the background another group of women is waiting for the next boat to arrive. The flat hat the saleswoman is wearing enables her to carry the basket with fish on her head. |
| Current Accession Number |
1239 |
| Inscription |
front lr 'Blommers' |
| Subject |
landscape; figure; animal (fish) |
| Measurements |
27.6 x 37.8 cm cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on panel |
| Acquisition Details |
Given by J. Carfrae Alston 1909. |
| Principal Exhibitions |
International Exhibition, Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1888, cat. no. 682, as Fishwives, Scheveningen. |
| Publications |
Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums, Glasgow, 1935, cat. no. 1239, p. 28, as Fishwives-Scheveningen; Miles, H., Dutch and Flemish, Netherlandish and German Paintings, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1961, vol. 1, p. 28, vol. 2, ill. p. 96. |
| Notes |
Label on back 'William Ewell / Carver, Gilder / and Picture Framer / 105 Bath Street / Glasgow' |
| Rights Owner |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author |
Suzanne Veldink |
