Comment: 1928
"Peter Monamy is the finest instance of the van de Velde tradition being accepted and perpetuated by an unenquiring mind ... tameness and lack of vigour ... what we should expect from a former house-painter who had never experienced the suspense, the terrors, the immensities of deep-sea roving ... Sea life with him is not shot and shell, fighting and tussle, but pleasant contemplation all on a summer's day, where the advent of gales or heavy seas would be sacrilege."
Old Sea Paintings; E.K.Chatterton"His knowledge of the sea was much less than his knowledge of ships and there is a faint air of calico about much of his water."
Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790
Sir Ellis Waterhouse
1978
