Oil on canvas (lined), unsigned, retains Weatherspoon Art Gallery label to verso, includes label from Tampa Art Museum's Dec 6 1989 - January 6, 1991 exhibition "At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes," presented in a wooden frame with silver gilt face.

Frame dimensions 25.75 x 41.25 in.

Deaccessioned from and being sold to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro

Gifted to Weatherspoon Art Museum in 1971 by Mr. M. Leonard Schoonman. Schoonman's father was a close friend of the artist.

Henry Singlewood Bisbing began his career as a wood engraver and then became a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1876, he studied in Munich, Germany at the Academy and in 1879 in Brussels as a student of the famous animal painter, JHL de Haas, who later said that Bisbing was among the most famous of animal painters. He finally settled in Paris and painted rural scenes of France and Holland. He is known for painting landscapes, animals/cattle, and genre scenes.

Waxed lined, all-over stable craquelure, with minor small scattered pin point areas of loss and one small area of loss to upper far left; blacklight reveals no major touch ups to painted surface; light wear to frame corners.