Oil paint on mahogany
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Robert Vernon
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-collins-105" aria-label="More by William Collins" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">William Collins</a>
Prawn Fishing
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
agriculture, gardening & fishing
beach
boy
children
cliff
coast
England
England, South East
England, Southern
fishing
fishing net
Isle of Wight
leisure and pastimes
objects
people
places
sea
seascapes and coasts
sport
UK counties
UK countries and regions
<p>Prawn Fishing was inspired by Collins’s trip to the Isle of Wight in 1827. Although it was painted entirely in his London studio, Collins’s handling of the landscape still retains the freshness of his outdoor oil sketches. This can be attributed to a resolution he made after the artist Sir William Beechey criticised his slow working practice. Collins resolved to paint with ‘less timidity and anxiety; as nothing can replace the want of that vigour and freshness, which things done quickly (with a constant reference to Nature) necessarily possess’.</p><p>Collins was the father of the novelist Wilkie Collins.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint mahogany
26 August 2002 – 18 July 2005
2005-07-18
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-08-26
Marine Painting
Collection based display
15 November 2008 – 30 August 2009
2009-08-30
15 November 2008 – 15 February 2009
2009-02-15
2008-11-15
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery (Nottingham, UK)
http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk
28 February 2009 – 3 May 2009
2009-05-03
2009-02-28
Ferens Art Gallery (Hull, UK)
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections
17 May 2009 – 30 August 2009
2009-08-30
2009-05-17
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery (Hastings, UK)
2008-11-15
Coasting; Bonington, Turner and their Contemporaries on the Shores of the Channel
Loan-out
Prawn Fishing
support: 435 × 584 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999978" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Robert Vernon</a> 1847
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<span class="text18">Prawn Fishing</span><span class="text0"> was inspired      by Collins’s trip to the Isle of Wight in 1827. Although </span><span class="text19">it was painted entirely in his London </span><span class="text0">studio, Collins’s handling of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> still retains the      freshness of his outdoor oil sketches. This can be attributed to a      resolution he made after the artist Sir </span><span class="text19">William      Beechey criticised his slow working practice. Collins resolved to paint      with ‘less timidity and anxiety; as nothing can replace the want of </span><span class="text0">that vigour and freshness, which things done quickly (with a      constant reference to Nature) necessarily possess’. </span>
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<span class="text0">Collins was the father of the novelist Wilkie Collins. </span>
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agriculture, gardening & fishing beach boy children cliff coast England England, South East England, Southern fishing fishing net Isle of Wight leisure and pastimes objects people places sea seascapes and coasts sport UK counties UK countries and regions