Limehouse Reach
Anderson was a shipwright by trade. He later moved to London where he exhibited nearly every year at the Royal Academy between 1787 and 1814. His work earned him a considerable reputation in his lifetime. Anderson took as his model the brilliant and tranquil marine paintings of van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707) but replaced the Dutch boats and canals with everyday scenes on the Thames and Medway. However, despite the influence of the Dutch master, his oil paintings and watercolours are entirely English in spirit and are closely akin to the work of Thomas Hearne (1744-1817) and Edward Dayes (1763-1804).
