The Sea and the Coastline Battle Each Other, Atlantic Coast, Islay sold I was delighted to find

I was delighted to find these two portraits tucked away in a country saleroom during the first lockdown for something of a steal

A documentary on the Leyden’s was made in 2016

He was a Swiss artist who trained in Paris under the great academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Académie des Beaux-Arts

mostly selling for a few hundred here and there and I feel a certain poignancy that she is now remembered for these ordinary little pot boilers rather than the early oils that augured such a dazzling future

In 1971 she was bought for the Philadelphia Maritime Museum and serves as a sail-training and good-will ship

The Sea and the Coastline Battle Each Other, Atlantic Coast, Islay sold I was delighted to find