Watercolor on paper. 21x32 cm. (8½x12½"), tipped to backing board. Signed in lower right.

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787-1855), commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby, near Halifax and famous for his watercolour landscapes. Fielding became a pupil of John Varley and in 1810 he became an associate exhibitor in the Old Water-colour Society, in 1813 a full member and in 1831 President of that body (later known as the Royal Society of Watercolours), until his death. The backing board has the label of Russell Hartley Fine Paintings, San Francisco; on verso is a label with alternate title, "Boat on the Beach w/Figures."