05 Works, Marine Art, Walter Langley’s perils of fishing life in a Cornish Village, with Footnotes, #87

Walter Langley, R.I. (1852-1922)
Waiting for the Boats, c. 1885

Pencil and watercolour
16 x 47 in. (42 x 119.5 cm.)
Private collection

Walter Langley devoted his life as a painter to scenes in the lives of fishing people in Cornwall. This work, from 1889, is slightly more dramatic than some in its depiction of off-stage events at sea impacting on people at home…

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