Inscribed, dated and signed with monogram beneath mount l.l.: Bull Bay/viii.1902/JES
Watercolour over traces of paper, 10 by 12.5 cm (4 by 5 ins)

Provenance: the artist’s cousin Isabel Harlock and thence by descent

A page in a sketchbook (see fig.xx) with a thumbnail sketch of a related composition to the present work is accompanied by the following inscription in the artist’s hand: “This picture, painted in tempera, with a stormy sky, was sold in the Georges Petit Gallery in 1910 in my one-man show.” Southall’s retrospective at the George Petit Gallery in 1910 was probably the most significant of his career, cementing his importance as a figure in British Art beyond his own shores.