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ALFRED ROBERT
QUINTON (1853 - 1934)
(Exh. 1877 - 1919)
“Godstow Lock on the Upper Thames”
Watercolour. Signed with initials
Bears the Artist’s
original exhibition label on reverse
Paper size 6 7/8”
x 10” (176mm x 254mm) IMAGE IMAGE
Alfred Robert Quinton was a landscape painter, mainly in watercolours, and a black and white artist. He studied at Heatherleys Art School and he started work as an engraver. From 1885 he concentrated on watercolours, especially landscapes, showing his work regularly in London Galleries. Towards the end of the 1890s he started illustrating books on English scenic subjects and is well know for the postcards of villages and towns and holiday areas reproduced from his paintings. In 1895 he and a friend cycled from Lands End to John O’Groats and Quinton’s art works from the trip were serialised in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. His watercolours were used to illustrate a number of books including Cycling in the Alps by C.L. Freeston in 1900, The Historic Thames by Hilaire Belloc in 1907, The Avon and Shakespeare’s Country by A.G. Bradley in 1910, A Book of the Wye by E Hutton in 1911 and The Cottages……of Rural England by P.H. Ditchfield in 1912. He exhibited his work at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Royal Society of Artists Birmingham, the Dudley Gallery, the Dowdeswell Galleries, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool and Manchester City Art Gallery. He lived at Westfield, Salisbury Avenue, Church End, Finchley. A quote from The Historic Thames by Hilaire Belloc reads “Quinton had a custom built vehicle for his art and he seized the opportunity with his usual enthusiasm and conscientiousness. With all his work he would disappear for months on end, bicycling round the countryside, putting up at inns and farmhouses, filling his notebooks with copious sketches. He contributed some sixty paintings to the special edition of the book – some of the original paintings being bought by the Duke of York following an exhibition of them by the Royal Society of British Artists.”
