Josephine's painting of her 'enemy' drew great acclaim
9 Jan 2021 SEA VIEW: Josephine Bowes’ painting Squally Weather: A Sketch near Boulogne. In the latest of her occasional columns, Dorothy Blundell takes a sideways look at the collections of The Bowes Museum where she is a volunteer WHY is the ocean green? Because the seaweed! A cracker-joke favourite, but it was no laughing matter for Joséphine Bowes. She was terrified of the sea – famously so. A report appeared in the Sporting Times in the early 1900s from a correspondent whose business had taken him to the Admiralty Pier in Dover in the 1860s. He recounted how his attention was drawn...
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