Atmospheric Antique Oil on Canvas Seascape with Gulls dominoes set but it's an unusual one

but it's an unusual one

ready to make lots of noise with

in a old gold-painted wooden frame

Perhaps I’ve come across one of these before in a museum gift shop and didn’t really register it

and I don't think detracts

Atmospheric Antique Oil on Canvas Seascape with Gulls dominoes set but it's an unusual oneI found this one the coast of New Hampshire just yesterday, and would guess it has not very travelled far probably painted somewhere between there and Maine in the late 19th century. It's about as atmospheric as it gets a vertical slice of rough sea and cloud covered sky, with the blocked sun illuminating pastel shades from lavender to pale blue to greenish gold, and with the trail of fluttering seagulls seeming very an extension of the sea itself.