Frederick Nash

Thanks to his early training in architectural drawing, Frederick

Nash earned high praise among the watercolor specialists of the

early 19th century for his detailed topographical views of cities.

Here he uses discrete dots of opaque pigment to give solidity and

clarity to the houses and foreground foliage while masterfully

blending transparent washes of blue, lavender, and gray to create

the smooth surfaces of the sky and water. Like many of his

contemporaries, Nash eventually made the southern coast his

permanent home, settling in Brighton in 1834 and ensuring that

an abundant supply of picturesque coastal views would always be

near at hand.