REF: 5004 - SOLD
Medium - Oil on wooden panel
Size - 6" x 9½" (15cm x 24cm)
Recto - Signed with the artist’s monogram AE in pencil
Verso – Label signed by Lady East stating that the picture was purchased from Lady East by Matthew B Walker of Wolverhampton
PROVENANCE
Bonhams described as “Farm Building with Figures”
Condition – Excellent
A North African Hut by Sir Alfred East
Sir Alfred East was born in Kettering in Northamptonshire, England in 1844. Born into a family of shoemakers, Alfred East studied art at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Sir Alfred East's landscapes are heavily influenced by the French Barbizon school of painters and to many he was considered to be the greatest living landscape painter of his time.