Belle Tout Lighthouse, Beachy Head, East Sussex
John Brett, ARA (1830-1902)
Oil on board
Signed & Inscribed on Reverse
Image Dimensions : 7¾" x 11½" (19.7cm x 29.2cm)
Price : £2,200
John Brett Biography
He was a London painter of coastal scenes & landscapes. He attracted the attention of Ruskin with "The Stonebreaker" at the Royal Academy in 1858. Encouraged by Ruskin, he visited Northern Italy & painted "The Val d'Aosta" which he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1859. Ruskin devoted several pages of his Acadeny Notes for that year to praising the picture.