REF: 5023 - SOLD
Medium – Watercolour on paper
Size - 9½" x 13” (24cm x 33cm)
Recto - Signed and inscribed “To Miss H Keir with Alfred East’s compliments Oct 1885” “Ben Lomond from above Aberfoyle”
PROVENANCE
From a private house collection in Chobham, Surrey. A number of quality paintings were in the collection including paintings by Alfred de Breanski Snr and other paintings by Sir Alfred East. The dedication Recto is from East to a relative of the previous owner.
Condition – Excellent
Ben Lomond from above Aberfoyle 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.