EDWARD SEAGO, R.W.S. | An East Coast Estuary

Marlborough Gallery, London;

Private collection

"There is a certain grandeur in the wide stretches of East Anglia, and a strange subtlety of constant change, which has inspired some of the greatest English landscapes... In the happy painting ground of Cotman, Crome and Constable, I am making no more than a modest attempt at following the traditions of the English school, which they endowed with such brilliance and harmony." (Edward Seago, Peace in War, 1943, p.11)

Born in Norwich, the East Anglian landscape was for Seago - like his celebrated English forebears - a major source of artistic inspiration. His depiction of windswept marshes, estuaries, isolated farmsteads and silver expanses of sea cast under a sky of fleeting clouds, as seen in the present work, established his reputation as one of the finest English landscape painters of the 20th century.