REF: 5041

Medium - Pen and ink on paper

Size - 9½" x 13" (24cm x 33cm)

Recto – Signed and inscribed “Fisherwoman watching the tide”

PROVENANCE

Toovey’s

Produced for The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 1885. K. McConkey. Also illustrated in the Alfred Easy Gallery guide.

Condition - Excellent. Slight Foxing

Fisherwoman Watching the Tide 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.

Biography