STEER, Philip Wilson
(b. 1860, Birkenhead, d. 1942, London)

Girls Running, Walberswick Pier

1890-94
Oil on canvas, 69 x 93 cm
Tate Gallery, London

Like many other English painter of his generation, Philip Wilson Steer, who enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1882, was initially under the sway of Bastien-Lepage. back in England, he settled in London, and from 1884 tended to paint at Walberswick on the Suffolk coast. There he painted fresh, outstanding pictures. Occasionally, he came close to pointillism, as seen in the present painting.




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