i love this painting.
@sadknob The real 'Painter of Light'.

@sadknob

This image has some interesting #sailing details. The larger gaff-rigged vessel in the inlet is hoisting its main sail, which has been 'scandalised' to avoid accelerating; it is also pulling a small craft behind.

The small boat in the foreground, being pulled up to the beach with 2 people aboard, is a sprit-rigged boat; its main has been loosely brailed to the mast.

Don't you wonder what the house with the lamp, foreground left, is?

Now I need to look up more about this work!