Going to Market - St Omer

Hector Caffieri was born in Gloucestershire in 1847. He was trained in Paris by the academic genre painters Léon Bonnat and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. From 1880 onwards Caffieri lived and worked in London, where he exhibited regularly at the Academy, then in Berkshire, and later on the North coast of France, where many of his famous coastal pictures were created. In 1892 his works were shown at the Salon in Paris. Hector Caffieri is considered a master of watercolour, who primarily devoted himself to fishing and harbour scenes. From 'The Illustrated London News'. Unrelated text on the reverse.