Arthur Briscoe, Marine Artist, born 25 February 1873, was the eldest child of five, to John and Eliza Briscoe in Birkenhead. These Mersey waterways would have been visited by great ocean going Liners, Steamships, Sailing Ships, Schooners and Brigs and possibly this is where his maritime interest began. His father, a prominent local cotton broker, travelled with Arthur to America and Japan before he turned 18 and began his studies at the Slade Art School in London and then at the Academy Julian in Paris.
Briscoe was a keen yachtsman and wrote a handbook on sailing under the pen-name of 'Clove Hitch', Briscoe soon tired of standard compositional formulae within the genre of marine painting and instead, inspired by J.M.W. Turner, he took to painting at sea. Briscoe's work is renowned for its accuracy of the details and in its achievement of an authentic sense of the movement of different types of vessels.
Arthur Briscoe exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. He was also a talented engraver and was made a full member of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers in 1933.