Ernest Frederick Dade (1868–1935), later known as Ernst Dade, was an English painter, specialising in coastal and maritime subjects, and maker of model ships. He was a member of the Staithes group, based in the North Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes.
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
The Staithes group or Staithes School was an art colony of 19th-century painters based in the North Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes.
Staithes by Charles Gregory, ca. 1920