An attractive watercolour painting of Brighton’s RNLI life boat house

An attractive watercolour painting of Brighton’s RNLI life boat house by its architect, C.H. Cooke, the sturdy rectangular building sited below the promenade with the bows of a life boat emerging from one end, with ladies in crinolines with parasols, men in top hats, fishermen and their boats drawn up on the beach, signed bottom left. The mount inscribed in polychrome with gilt arabesques ‘Presented to Almeric Seymour. M.D., by the, Committee of the Brighton Branch of the National Lifeboat Institution, for his great services as Honorary Secretary in obtaining the new life boat & boat house. Inaugurated Oct. 1st 1867.’ English, dated 1867.

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