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DescriptionA watercolor painting by American artist, Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott, of Eel Brook Beach and Ashburton Head on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. It dates to about 1900. Triscott was born in Gosport, England in 1846, one of five children, to a relatively well off family. His early art studies in painting were at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors in London. But he was also trained in civil engineering. In 1871 Triscott moved to Worcester, Massachusetts and became a partner in a civil engineering firm there. Three years later he began selling his painting out of his engineering office and in 1881 he had he had a one person exhibition at the Boston Art Club in Boston. He continued to show regularly at this Club as well as the American Watercolor Society in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Gallery of J. Eastman Chase in Boston. Triscott taught painting during this time and his students included Winslow Homer, Sears Gallagher, William J. Bixbee, and Robert Henri. In 1885, he helped found, along with others, the Boston Society of Water Color Painters. Triscott first began to visit Monhegan Island in mid-coast Maine in the early 1890s. There he bought a large tract of land, parts of which he later sell off as cottage lots as Monhegan became more popular as a summer destination. As time went on, Triscott spend more of each year on Monhegan and eventually began staying there year round. It was during his Monhegan years that Triscott visited Grand Manan. He died on Monhegan in 1925. This watercolor was acquired by the Tides Institute at auction in 2014. Photo caption: Watercolor of Eel Brook Beach and Ashburnton Head on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick by American artist,. Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott. The watercolor dates to about 1900. Artist: S. P. R. Triscott Medium: Watercolor Classification: Paintings Circa: 1880 Description: Eel Brook Beach and Ashburton Head, Grand Manan. Old Accession Number: 1438