Edward Seago, R.W.S., R.B.A. (1910-1974)

By the early 1950s Edward Seago had settled at the Dutch House in Ludham in his home county of Norfolk. He converted a sailing boat, the Capricorn, into a floating studio and made regular trips across the Channel. He would often start in Holland and work his way down the coast to Dieppe to paint in the footsteps of Walter Sickert, and then on to Honfleur where Monet and Boudin had set up their easels. He would travel up the Seine through Argenteuil and Vernon and on to Paris looking for what he described as 'an endless search for explanations and discovery'. The Champs Elysees, the Place de la Concorde and the Tuileries Gardens became his favoured subjects; often painting large oil sketches to capture the swiftly changing effects of light and atmosphere.