Samuel Owen B. 1768?
Beach scene
Water colour
14cm x 19.5cm
Bears label for P&D Colnaghi & Co Ltd
Old Bond Street London attached to the reverse
 
Samuel Owen (1768? ñ 8 December 1857)
was an English marine painter and illustrator
 
Owen was born about 1769. Nothing is recorded of him before 1791,
when he exhibited "A Sea View" at the Royal Academy. This was
followed in 1797, after the victory of Cape St. Vincent, by
"A View of the British and Spanish Fleets", and, in 1799, by three drawings 
of the engagement between the "HMS Director" (under Captain Bligh) and
the Vryheid (Admiral De Winter) in the Battle of Camperdown on 11 Oct. 1797.
These, with three other drawings exhibited in 1802 and 1807, complete the number 
of his exhibits at the Royal Academy.[1]