Lot #55 - Alfred Hitchens, 1861-1942 (Great Britain)
Alfred Hitchens, 1861-1942 (Great Britain)
Estimate: 5 000 - 10 000 £
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Alfred Hitchens (1861-1942).
Galatea at the Fountain of Acis. 1896.
Oil on canvas, size 87 x 154 cm (34 1/4 x 60 2/3 inches). Frame dimensions 102 x 168 ?m (40 1/4 x 66 1/4 inches).
Signed and dated lower left. Signed lower right.
Alfred Hitchens (27 November 1861-5 October 1942) was an English painter, father, grandfather and great grandfather of artists Ivon Hitchens, John Hitchens and Simon Hitchens respectively. His work was regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.Alfred Hitchens was born in Peckham Rye, Surrey (now London). He entered the South Kensington School of Art in 1877, followed by studies in Paris, at the Académie Julian and in Rome. He married Ethel Margareth Seth-Smith in 1887 and toured Italy and southern Germany.[4][5] He gained early recognition, aged 21, at a National Competition of Schools of Art. The London Daily News reported: "...among the gold medallists, the first prize for an oil painting from the nude having been gained by Mr Alfred Hitchens, a very young man..."After 1887, Hitchens came to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy. His work is described in The Morning Post as: "a worthy recruit to the classic art is to be found in Mr Alfred Hitchens’ and ‘his cleverly painted picture ‘The Shadow of a Vow’. More recently, in a biography of his son, Ivon Hitchens, his paintings of that period are characterised as "in the academic mainstream of the day... Classical mythology alternating with the sentimentalised rustic realism of the school of Bastien-Lepage..."
Galatea at the Fountain of Acis. 1896.
Oil on canvas, size 87 x 154 cm (34 1/4 x 60 2/3 inches). Frame dimensions 102 x 168 ?m (40 1/4 x 66 1/4 inches).
Signed and dated lower left. Signed lower right.
Alfred Hitchens (27 November 1861-5 October 1942) was an English painter, father, grandfather and great grandfather of artists Ivon Hitchens, John Hitchens and Simon Hitchens respectively. His work was regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.Alfred Hitchens was born in Peckham Rye, Surrey (now London). He entered the South Kensington School of Art in 1877, followed by studies in Paris, at the Académie Julian and in Rome. He married Ethel Margareth Seth-Smith in 1887 and toured Italy and southern Germany.[4][5] He gained early recognition, aged 21, at a National Competition of Schools of Art. The London Daily News reported: "...among the gold medallists, the first prize for an oil painting from the nude having been gained by Mr Alfred Hitchens, a very young man..."After 1887, Hitchens came to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy. His work is described in The Morning Post as: "a worthy recruit to the classic art is to be found in Mr Alfred Hitchens’ and ‘his cleverly painted picture ‘The Shadow of a Vow’. More recently, in a biography of his son, Ivon Hitchens, his paintings of that period are characterised as "in the academic mainstream of the day... Classical mythology alternating with the sentimentalised rustic realism of the school of Bastien-Lepage..."
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Good condition. No visible defects or damage. The frame has a few chips.
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