REF: 5002 - SOLD

Medium - Oil on canvas

Size - 40" x 60" (102cm x 153cm)

Recto - Signed

Verso - Signed, inscribed and dated '#64/Alfred East/A Gay Party at Como/1902/40 x 60' on an attached label

PROVENANCE

E.B. Marriage, Esq

Mr Ira Nelson Morris

Christie's

Exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts

Condition – Excellent

An Idyll at Como 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