Holy Island, Northumberland

The artist employed loose, expressive brushstrokes to capture the dynamic movement of the sea and sky, using muted colours with vivid highlights, such as the white of the waves and the yellow of the sand.

The watercolour was once owned by Benjamin Godfrey Windus and later by Viscountess Wakefield, who donated it in 1943 in memory of her husband. It appears in John Scarlett Davis's 1835 painting of Windus's library, now in the British Museum.