Harold Goldthwait was a predominantly landscape painter from Carshalton in Surrey, who moved to Norwood Hill in London in 1898, Lewes in Sussex in 1910 and to Brighton in 1916. He travelled extensively throughout the southern counties of England to paint, including trips to the Isle of Wight. He exhibited widely, at the Royal Academy, London, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, the Goupil Gallery, the London Salon, the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. This is a typical and fine example of his work.