Low Tide, Katwijk Shore, Holland

Location

Country: Netherlands
City: The Hague
Place: British Embassy

Several figures can be seen on the beach at Katwijk and, in the water beyond them, small sailing boats are approaching the shore in this watercolour view by Thomas Bush Hardy.

The small coastal town of Katwijk is a fishing community to the north of Scheveningen, in the province of South Holland, the Netherlands. Hardy was resident in Holland as a young artist and began to visit the town during the 1860s. He painted numerous similar watercolour views of the beach.

Thomas Bush Hardy, marine artist, was born in Sheffield. As a youth he travelled to America, where he fought on the side of the Union during the Civil War of 1860 to 1865. He then lived in France and Holland, before returning to England. He is best remembered for his paintings of the River Thames and English coastal shipping scenes. He regularly exhibited work at the Royal Academy and the New Watercolour Society between 1871 and 1897 and, in 1884, was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. He died in London on 15 December 1897 and was survived by eight children, of whom three became artists, the most well-known being Dudley Hardy (1867-1922), a painter and illustrator.

Places

Katwijk, North Sea, Netherlands

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, seascape/coastal scene, seagull, shore, tide, sea, beach, wave, man, woman, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Thomas Bush Hardy (1842 - 1897)

Title

Low Tide, Katwijk Shore, Holland

Date

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 22.80 cm, width: 46.10 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Gilbert Davis, July 1964

Inscription

bl: T.B.Hardy. Katwijk Shore. / Low Tide

GAC number

1776