For sale – ‘Hauling the Boat Ashore’ (1871)

August 2, 2022
‘Hauling the boat ashore – coast of France’ by Eyre Crowe (1871)

Your chance to buy an oil painting by Eyre Crowe!

‘Hauling the boat ashore – coast of France‘, a stunning painting completed in 1871, is to be sold at auction by Atkins Auctions at Axminster, Devon, on Friday 5 August. It appears always to have been in private hands and to my knowledge, never exhibited. Showing a group of women believed to be in traditional Breton costume, pulling a wooden boat out of the water, it is one of a number of paintings by Eyre Crowe inspired by his regular trips to northern France.

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Pulling the boat ashore

May 19, 2010

'Pulling the boat ashore' by Eyre Crowe, 1871

'Pulling the boat ashore' by Eyre Crowe, 1871

A private owner has let me know about a painting in his possession, thought to be by Eyre Crowe and dating from 1871. Pulling the boat ashore seems to show a group of Breton women pulling a fishing boat onto a beach. The composition of the picture, with multiple characters arranged in a line, is very reminiscent of other paintings by Crowe, including At the pit-door (1873)  The Dinner Hour, Wigan (1874), and Nelson Leaving England for the Last Time (1888).

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