Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Robert Vernon
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-augustus-wall-callcott-78" aria-label="More by Sir Augustus Wall Callcott" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir Augustus Wall Callcott</a>
Littlehampton Pier
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
actions: expressive
adults
agriculture and fishing
agriculture, gardening & fishing
animals: mammals
architecture
beach
boat, fishing
coast
England
England, South East
England, Southern
figure
fisherman / fisherwoman
fishing net
horse
Littlehampton
objects
people
pier
places
pointing
riding
sea
seascapes and coasts
society
storm
Sussex - non-specific
Sussex, West
townscapes / man-made features
transport: land
transport: water
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
weather
work and occupations
<p>Callcott was a close friend and admirer of Turner. The two artists were often influenced by each other. Like Turner, Callcott was fascinated by atmospheric effects. His landscapes and marines tended to be simple and almost abstract in composition, to provide a clear stage for mists or shifting lights.This picture of the Sussex coast was praised for its ‘aerial tints’ which gave ‘<i>unity of character</i>... the interesting impression of this otherwise desolate and uninviting prospect’. It was bought by the collector, Sir John Leicester, who formed an important collection of modern British art.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
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
6 February 2003 – 4 January 2004
2004-01-04
6 February 2003 – 11 May 2003
2003-05-11
2003-02-06
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
8 June 2003 – 7 September 2003
2003-09-07
2003-06-08
Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, USA)
2003-02-06
Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics 1820 - 1840
Exhibition
25 July 2005 – 26 July 2009
2009-07-26
25 July 2005
2005-07-25
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-07-25
Romantic Painting in Britain
Collection based display
21 November 2012 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
17 November 2012
2012-11-17
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-11-21
Gallery 10
Collection based display
22 July 2013 – 28 June 2014
2014-06-28
22 July 2013 – 22 September 2013
2013-09-22
2013-07-22
Compton Verney (Compton Verney, UK)
5 October 2013 – 5 January 2014
2014-01-05
2013-10-05
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
1 March 2014 – 28 June 2014
2014-06-28
2014-03-01
Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/
2013-07-22
Capturing British Landscape in the age of Turner and Constable
Loan-out
Littlehampton Pier
support: 1067 × 1410 mm
frame: 1500 × 1840 × 108 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
<p>Callcott was a close friend and admirer of Turner. The two artists were often influenced by each other. Like Turner, Callcott was fascinated by atmospheric effects. His landscapes and marines tended to be simple and almost abstract in composition, to provide a clear stage for mists or shifting lights.This picture of the Sussex coast was praised for its ‘aerial tints’ which gave ‘<i>unity of character</i>... the interesting impression of this otherwise desolate and uninviting prospect’.  It was bought by the collector, Sir John Leicester, who formed an important collection of modern British art.</p>

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actions: expressive adults agriculture and fishing agriculture, gardening & fishing animals: mammals architecture beach boat, fishing coast England England, South East England, Southern figure fisherman / fisherwoman fishing net horse Littlehampton objects people pier places pointing riding sea seascapes and coasts society storm Sussex - non-specific Sussex, West townscapes / man-made features transport: land transport: water UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions weather work and occupations