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Alfred John BillinghurstFrom The Studio (Snow)1920-1940
1920-1940
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Alfred John Billinghurst (1880-1963)
From The Studio (Snow), c. 1920-40
Oil on artist’s board
Titled and signed verso
The panel stamped with a Blanchet supplier’s mark
32.8 x 40.1 cm.
Provenance:
Bloomsbury Auctions, London, 22 November 2006, lot 7;
Private Collection, United Kingdom.
An attractive example of the British Impressionist movement, a snow-carpeted wooded clearing is observed by the artist from his studio window, who sets down an abstracted vision of a bitter landscape engulfed in the distinctive silence of snow. A gloriously subtle palette of pale blue, purple and white engulfs the clearing in a pale chilling light. Punctuated with staccato dashes of sparing green and yellow pigment, the artist suggests the gradual movement of an afternoon sun melting the ice on the leaves below. This tactile quality culminates with the illusory weight of the snow, applied in thick impasto to the delicate foliage and winter-thin branches of the central tree. A haze of blue subsumes the distant canopy in a foggy hue, capturing the visually disorientating effects of continued snowfall.
Painted by the British artist Alfred John Billinghurst, the supplier’s stencil mark of Blanchet, 38 Rue Bonaparte, Paris, dates the painting c. 1920-40. Inscriptions to the reverse of the support further identify Billinghurst’s studio as the position from which the view was painted, conceivably executed on a morning of unusual snowfall which compelled the artist to paint with such delicate immediacy an otherwise familiar view.
Alfred John Billinghurst was born in Blackheath, London, in 1880. The son of a businessman, he was educated at St. Dunstan’s College in Switzerland, after which he returned to England as a student at the Slade School in 1899. It was there that he came under the influence of Frederick Brown (1851-1941), and the early development of the British Impressionist movement. Billinghurst moved to Paris and enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts, and later travelled throughout France and Italy to paint and study the works of the Impressionists. Upon the outbreak of war, Billinghurst enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regiment, and worked as a censor behind the front lines. In peacetime, he acquired a house and adjoining studio in East Sheen, London, and married in 1920. He enjoyed a working friendship with Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944), son of the father of Impressionism, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). He was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in the following year, and exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute, and Paris Salon.
Billinghurst’s sister, Rosa May Billinghurst (1875-1953), was a prominent suffragette who, having survived polio as a child, campaigned in a wheelchair. As a young woman, Rosa May Billinghurst worked to rescue young girls from prostitution, and later joined the Lewisham branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union. Taking part in the 1910 ‘Black Friday’ demonstrations, she was also complicit in the window-smashing campaign of March 1912, and in January 1913 was sentenced to 8 months’ imprisonment for damaging letters in a post box. After going on hunger strike, her condition deteriorated such that she was released only two weeks after entering prison. In May 1913, she chained herself to the gates of Buckingham Palace. She lived with her brother, Alfred, after 1914.
- Creator:Alfred John Billinghurst (1880 - 1963)
- Creation Year:1920-1940
- Dimensions:Height: 12.92 in (32.8 cm)Width: 15.79 in (40.1 cm)
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- Condition:The work is in good and stable condition. The board appears to have been trimmed marginally on the horizontal edges, with little affect on the composition. Some markings verso, including pigment likely from the artist's studio.
- Gallery Location:Maidenhead, GB
- Reference Number:Seller: Alfred John Billinghurst1stDibs: LU2820215585402
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