Henry George Walker - Brixham Trawlers - Original signed etching - NO RESERVE

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For sale, with No Reserve, is this fantastic highly detailed original hand-coloured and signed etching by Henry G Walker 1876-1932. It depicts Brixham Sailing Trawlers at low tide with a rowing boat in the foregound. Brixham at one time had one of the largest fishing fleets in Britain and was the birthplace of the sailing trawler, a design that formed the backbone of the British fishing industry in the days of sail. Their strength and speed made them unique as no other type of vessel was capable of towing the heavy trawl gear in all conditions, or was capable of carrying the catch as swiftly to market. Henry George Walker was born in 1876 in the Birchfield area of the city of Birmingham where his father was in the coal trade. From 1897 - 1901 he attended the well-known Birmingham Municipal School of Art, now part of the University of Central England. He may have designed jewellery for a time after finishing his training there. By 1907 he was working as a freelance designer and commercial line artist from his own studio in his Birchfield home. He became active as an etcher from around 1921. when he first exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society. To make a living, he concentrated on popular architectural and topographical plates in various combinations of soft-ground etching, dry-point and aquatint, both coloured and monochrome. read more

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