Alfred East Art
British, 1844-1913
Sir Alfred East 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 had 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. 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 in 1892. 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 colors, half-tones and pencil sketches. He was awarded a Knighthood in 1910 by King Edward VII. His portrait was painted by Philip de László. The Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering, designed by John Alfred Gotch opened on 31 July 1913 and is Northamptonshire's oldest purpose-built art gallery. East was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1899, having been a regular exhibitor since 1883 and elected to full membership in 1913. On 28 September 1913, East died at his London residence in Belsize Park. His body was taken back to Kettering and lay in state in the Alfred East Art Gallery, where it was surrounded by the pictures he had presented to the town, and attracted crowds of several thousand.
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Artist: Alfred East
A River Landscape, 19th Century British Watercolour, Signed and Dated 1880
By Alfred East
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated '1880' bottom left
Image size: 9 x 13 inches (23 x 30 cm)
Hand made gilt frame
Sir Alfred East
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Moving the Flock, Signed Oil on canvas Scottish Highlands Landscape
By Alfred East
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed bottom left
Image size: 24 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches (62 x 92 cm)
Gilt frame
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The Kindling Gatherers, 1890 (knighted Royal Academy member, Antique Landscape)
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The Woodcutter
By Alfred East
Located in London, GB
Alfred East
The Wood Cutter
Oil on board
Signed lower right and titled on back
Image size: 10 1/4 x 15 inches (26 x 37.5 cm)
Carved gilt frame
This romantic landscape by East, certainly shows the influence that the Barbizon school had on his work. The Barbizon school were drawn together by their passion and desire to elevate landscape painting as a response to the Academic elevation of historical and mythological themes. Here, East truly revels in the beauty of the English landscape but also captures the mood of the time in which there was a growing concern at the rapidity of social change and its impact upon the countryside.
East regularly painted the Cotswolds from the early 1890s until the end of his life - it is probable that this scenes depicts that part of the country. He focused principally on the area around Upper Swell, which he referred to as 'Over Swell', hoping to avoid the village becoming a focus for visitors seeking out the views that he portrayed.
East adopted a well established three-stage-technique that made great use of the under-painting, a second layer concerned with the correction of values, and a final stage for the addition of details; all painted with lean oil paint. As can be seen in the work, during this process East practically repainted the entire canvas after the first layer and then proceeded to pick out isolated sections that required further reworking and detail.
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Moonlit Night in Blue - Moonlight - Barbizon painters
By Alfred East
Located in Miami, FL
Sir Alfred East painted a series of moonlit landscapes that is reminiscent of the Barbizon school of painters, Corot, and some of the impressionists. This painting has two light sources. The moonlight and window light which is depicted by the artist in a deep yellow. Highlights from the window skim off the top of the shrubs. "East was one of the most acclaimed landscape painters of his time." Tate Gallery
" His particular strength was in painting the effect of different lights on the landscape. " Fine Arts Museums San Francisco.
Sir Alfred Edward East RA RBA (15 December 1844 – 28 September 1913) was an English painter.
He studied in Paris with Bouguereau.
In 1906 he was elected President of the Royal Society of British Artists.
He was awarded a Knighthood in 1910 by King Edward VII. His portrait was painted by Philip de Laszlo...
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