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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/charles-conder-934" aria-label="More by Charles Conder" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Charles Conder</a>
By Sea Swanage
Presented by Mrs Jessop in memory of W.H. Jessop 1928
actions: postures and motions
adults
architecture
bay
coast
Dorset
England
England, South West
England, Southern
hill
landscape
people
pier
places
sea
seascapes and coasts
sitting
standing
Swanage - non-specific
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
woman
<p>Conder's directly painted little sketches of Swanage can be compared in approach with paintings by his slightly younger contemporaries in Britain, Augustus John and William Nicholson. Conder at the same time was also reviving an unusual genre, painting on fans in an eighteenth-century style. The prettiness and elegance of his fans is echoed in these sketches. Compare the contemporary fascination with rococo decorative art in Wilson Steer's 'Toilet of Venus' on show in this room.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
31 October 2022
4 October 2021
2021-10-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-10-31
Gallery 8
Collection based display
By the Sea: Swanage
support: 229 × 305 × 16 mm
frame: 337 × 415 × 70 mm
Presented by Mrs Jessop in memory of W.H. Jessop 1928
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<p>Charles Conder was brought up in Britain, India and Australia. He became an important member of a group of forward-thinking Australian artists, called the Heidelberg School. They painted in the open-air at ‘artist-camps’ in the countryside near Melbourne. Conder returned to Britain in 1890 and mixed with avant-garde artists and writers in London and Paris. His landscapes made at Swanage bring the brilliant colours and light effects of Australian impressionism to the Dorset Coast.</p>
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2023-11-29T00:00:00
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<p><b>N04412</b> BY THE SEA: SWANAGE <i>c.</i> 1901
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Conder’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 9×12 (23×30·5).
<br/>Presented by Mrs Jessop in memory of W. H. Jessop 1928.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> As for No.4407.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Rothenstein, 1938, pp.210, 259.</p>
<p>This appears to have been painted from slightly more inside the bay than <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/conder-swanage-bay-n04411" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04411</span></a> and shows the main landing-stage at Swanage. Either <span>N04411</span> or <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/conder-by-the-sea-swanage-n04412" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04412</span></a> may have been the work exhibited at Whitechapel in 1910 and by the C.A.S. in 1911 and 1912 as ‘Swanage’ (see under <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/conder-swanage-n04407" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04407</span></a>).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-20T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults architecture bay coast Dorset England England, Southern England, South West hill landscape people pier places sea seascapes and coasts sitting standing Swanage - non-specific townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions woman