British School - 'Penarth, French Shipping in the Foreground'. Un Vie de Matelot - a French sailor's life involved voyages to Penarth and Cardiff to collect coals and a great deal of trade was done in both directions to the mutual benefit of both nations - no Common Market, no EU and a lot less barriers to trade than we have today! Penarth Head features in this fine oil painting dating from the first half of the nineteenth century by an unknown artist of the British School. [439]