REF: 5015
Medium - Watercolour on paper
Size - 9½" x 13" (24cm x 33cm)
Recto – Signed and inscribed “Loading Barges”
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. Some of which included dedications from East to relatives of the previous owners.
Condition – Excellent
Loading Barges 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.