http://ift.tt/1vBrvPB Cullercoats Beach Whitley Bay.. Cullercoats Harbour being painted by Peter Flanagan a painter from Hexham. Northumberland. Enjoy this study of Peter painting on October 2nd 2014 . The Cullercoats Colony of artists was active from about 1870 to 1914. It wasbased around Cullercoats fishing village, near the Whitley Bay. The artists were attracted by the villagers’ traditional way of life and their close-knit community. The Cullercoats artists painted fisherfolk, local workers, and the coast. They often made painting studies on the spot to capture the light of the scene as naturalistically as possible. The group was similar to other artists’ colonies in Britain and Europe at the time.In past years, many artists of renown lived and worked in the village. America’s greatest painter Winslow Homer (1836 – 1910) originally a rural painter, became a seascape painter because of the time he spent in Cullercoats from 1881 – 1882. While at Cullercoats, he stayed in room 17 at the Hudleston Arms now the ‘Bay Hotel). He used as a studio occupied by Miss Carrick, the daughter of Thomas Carric. He was a miniature painter and his invention of painting his portraits on marble instead of ivory, gained a considerable reputation during the Victorian era.
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