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Thomas Rose Miles (fl.1869-1888) Lifeboat Crew oil on canvas signed lower left h:61  w:107 cm. Provenance: Eakin Gallery, Belfast Private Collection Thomas Rose Miles was inspired by the grandeur of the oceans and its artistic endeavours. Over, under and upon the boundless seas, dramatic vignettes take shape, and humans set to capture the array of the aquatic muse. The sea's beauty is most often shown in direct competition with its power and unpredictable nature on his canvases and watercolours. He includes the human element, usually over-matched yet persevering against the heavy swells and weather-driven might, carrying on the Marine Art Legacy that was birthed in the best of the Dutch Maritime Art Tradition. Working in London, Miles performed an occasional landscape, but his stormy seas and turbulent waters time and again found places of exhibition in the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Hibernian Academy, and Arthur Tooth and Sons Gallery, London.