1815
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
View of Hastings is a 1815 watercolor by William Havell, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a quiet countryside scene with a winding path and a few people walking. In the foreground, a woman in a red dress holds a parasol while two others walk behind her. Shepherds tend to a small herd of sheep and cows grazing on grass. A rocky cliff rises on the left, and a distant town sits at the base of rolling hills. The artist used soft, light colors to show the gentle landscape, with clouds drifting over the hills. The scene feels peaceful, like a moment frozen in time. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see this painting in person.
A watercolour view of Hastings features cows in the foreground. The work is signed and dated by the artist in 1815.
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William Havell (9 February 1782 – 16 December 1857) was an English landscape painter, one of the Havell family of artists, and a founding member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours.
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