Ernest Dade

[4] Dade and Nelson Dawson rented studios at Manresa Road, Chelsea.

[4] Dade married Maud Alderson-Smith in St Martins Church, Scarborough in 1913.

[6] With her he returned to London where he had a studio at St John's Wood, sub-let in part to fellow Staithes Group members Laura and Harold Knight.

[8] and wrote articles about boats and sailing, for their quarterly journal, The Mariner's Mirror.

[3] Institutions holding his work include the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum (which has his sketchbooks,[10] and those of his brother Fred[5]), Rotherham, Scarborough, and Whitby art galleries[4] and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

On the Fishing Grounds
Sketch of small sailing craft and a square-rigger, from one of Dade's sketchbooks, at the National Maritime Museum
Book jacket from Sail and Oar