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Alfred EastNew Neighbourhood - British London Victorian landscape 1889 Paris gold winner1887
1887
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A very fine, large and delicately painted watercolour by Alfred East RA which depicts "The New Neighbourhood". Until recently the whereabouts of the work was unknown. It is one of his most famous early works and was highly praised and commended when he first painted it and sent it to exhibition. The New Neighbourhood was painted in 1887. "It was first shown at The Institute of Painters in Watercolour, before it won a Gold medal at The Exposition Universalle in Paris in 1889. Why it appealed to French judges is obvious. In the 1880's, the city provided subject matter for numerous avant garde painters. Apart from the Impressionists and Edouard Manet, artists like Jean- Francois Raffaelli and Jean Beraud recorded different aspects of the expanding metropolis... There were few British painters documenting the rise of the middle-class suburbs. Until, that is, A New Neighbourhood portrayed a bleak north London building site with a modern villa under construction." Kenneth McConkey - Alfred East.
Signed lower right.
Provenance. Fine Art Society.
Sotheby London 18th April 1984 Lot 146.
Institute of Painters in Watercolour.
Exposition Universalle Paris 1889 - Gold Medal Winner.
Condition. Watercolour on paper, 39 inches by 21 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed behind glass, 50 inches by 32 inches framed and in good condition.
Alfred East (1844-1913) was born in Kettering in Northamptonshire and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. His romantic landscapes show the influence of the Barbizon school. In April 1888 he shared an exhibition at the galleries of the Fine Art Society with T.C. Gotch and W. Ayerst Ingram, and was commissioned the following year by Marcus Huish, Managing Director of the Society, to spend six months in Japan to paint the landscape and the people of the country. When the exhibition of 104 paintings from this tour was held at the Fine Art Society in 1890 it was a spectacular success. East visited Spain after 1892 when he visited Algeciras at the southern end of Iberia. In 1906 he was elected President of the Royal Society of British Artists, a position he held until his death. In that year, he published his 107-page illustrated 'The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour'; in its preface, he made the observation: "The greatest errors in landscape painting are to be found – contradictory as it may appear – not so much in the matter of technique as in the painter's attitude toward Nature". In this book he described his techniques using colours, half-tones and pencil sketches. He was awarded a Knighthood in 1910 by King Edward VII. His portrait was painted by Philip de Laszlo. The Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering, designed by John Alfred Gotch, opened on 31 July 1913. It is Northamptonshire's oldest purpose-built art gallery. East was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1899, having been a regular exhibitor since 1883 and elected to full membership in 1913. On 28 September 1913, Alfred East died at his London residence in Belsize Park. His body was taken back to Kettering and lay in state in the Art Gallery, where it was surrounded by the pictures he had presented to the town, and attracted crowds of several thousands.
- Creator:Alfred East (1844 - 1913, British)
- Creation Year:1887
- Dimensions:Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 50 in (127 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU853110173762
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