Alfred Gomersal Vickers
Alfred Gomersal Vickers (1810–1837) was an English painter of seascapes and landscapes.
Life[]
He was born at Lambeth on 21 April 1810, the son of (1786–1868), a landscape-painter, who taught him. He was influenced by the watercolourists François Louis Thomas Francia and Richard Parkes Bonington. He began to show his work in 1827.[1]
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Vickers exhibited paintings, both in oils and watercolours, at the Royal Academy, British Institution, Suffolk Street gallery, and the New Watercolour Society. He painted mainly marine subjects, but also architecture and figures.[2]
In 1833 Vickers received a commission from Charles Heath to make sketches in Russia for publication. Steel engravings from these and from many of his marine pieces appeared in the annuals for 1835–7. He was beginning to obtain public recognition when he died on 12 January 1837. His pictures were sold at Christie's on 16 February that year.[1][2]
Notes[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b H. L. Mallalieu (1986). The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. p. 346. ISBN 1-85149-025-6.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). . Dictionary of National Biography. 58. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Vickers, Alfred Gomersal". Dictionary of National Biography. 58. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- 1810 births
- 1837 deaths
- English landscape painters
- English watercolourists
- People from Lambeth