By the 1930s, Arnesby Brown had become a well-known painter in the UK and was rewarded with international recognition in representing Britain at the Venice Biennale, alongside a retrospective of his work held in Norwich in 1935. At the time, he and his wife Mia divided their time between Norfolk, St Ives and London, often with summer and autumn spent in East Anglia recording the open landscapes and vast skies, such as shown here. Arnesby Brown's painting was cut short soon after, with the loss of Mia and the onset of blindness in 1942. Nottingham Museum hold a comparative painting, The Estuary, which was acquired from Lord Plander in that final year of the Artist's painting.