Artist
Francis Howard Captain Vyse
Francis Howard Captain Vyse is a British Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Captain Vyse carried a tin of watercolors like others carry a flask, sketching ruins instead of drinking. In Acre he caught the city’s crumbling walls glowing gold at dusk, brushstrokes so loose they look like they were made on the spot. Find the watercolour in the British Library’s online collection and zoom in—you’ll see the paper’s rough grain holding tiny flecks of sand from the Levantine shore.
Works by Francis Howard Captain Vyse
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.