James Baker Pyne (1800-1870) was an English landscape painter who became a successful follower of Turner, after having been in his earlier years a member of the Bristol School of artists and a follower of Francis Danby.

In this painting, a couple and their dog watch the shipping while the sun sets over the mouth of the Avon. Romantic landscape painting did not merely record a scene or describe a particular atmospheric effect and in this painting James Baker Pyne suggests the couple's delight in the beauty of the sunset over the river.

The composition is close to Pyne's larger ''View of the Avon from Durdham Down'', which is also in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery''s collection but has a more reflective mood.