William Broome, Fishing Boats In A Strong Breeze Off Dover Portraits York - a stone’s throw

York - a stone’s throw from York Minster Cathedral

Gone to get his violin

Note the two steamboats chugging away in the distance

the composition is dominated by the impressive Castle of Guzmán el Bueno

William Broome, Fishing Boats In A Strong Breeze Off Dover Portraits York - a stone’s throwThis fine late 19th century oil painting by British artist William Broome (1839 1894) depicts a French fishing boat buffeted by waves off the coast at Dover, Kent. Broome was an accomplished maritime painter who worked predominantly in the south east of England. Thrust by the irrepressible force of the English Channel, the vessels bow rises and crashes through the spray. Its a dramatic scene of seafaring theatre set under a rapidly evolving melancholy