Crab boats at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast

Oil painting. Peter Jamieson studied painting, drawing, etching and wood-engraving at the Royal Academy Schools, 1969–72. While there he won the Osbert-Briley prize for painting and the Inverest prize for printmaking as well as the Inverest prize for etching at the Grafitti Gallery, London. Shortly afterwards he won the Elizabeth T. Greenshield Award to study in Italy. His work is in several notable collections, including that of HRH the Prince of Wales, and the Brinsley Ford Collection at the Courtauld Institute, London.

The Museum commissioned this painting from him in 1982; acquired 1983.

Object Details

ID: BHC4161
Collection: Fine art
Type: Painting
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Jamieson, Peter
Date made: 1982
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Painting: 917 x 1222 x 11 mm; Frame: 1065 mm x 1370 mm x 60 mm