Girls Running, Walberswick Pier
by STEER, Philip Wilson, Oil on canvas, 69 x 93 cm
Like many other English painter of his generation, Philip Wilson Steer, who enrolled at the Acad�mie Julian in Paris in 1882, was initially under the sway of Bastien-Lepage. back in England, he settled in London, and from 1884 tended to paint at Walberswick on the Suffolk coast. There he painted fresh, outstanding pictures. Occasionally, he came close to pointillism, as seen in the present painting.