Sir Alfred Edward East RA PRBA
1844 - 1913
Born in Kettering, Alfred East studied at the Glasgow School of Art. After a six-month trip to Japan to paint the landscape and people, he held an exhibition in 1890 of 104 resulting paintings from the tour at the Fine Art Society, which was a spectacular success. Elected to the Royal Academy in 1899 and President of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1906, East was also knighted for his services to art. Although an establishment figure, he brought a new perspective on landscape painting in the late nineteenth century, and in the era of the Aesthetic Movement, when the arts of Japan were so influential. The present work shows the influence of the Barbizon School and also perhaps of Japanese prints in its simplicity and the dominant sunset. In his later career, East painted a series of paintings of lake and river scenes in autumn colours. There are examples in a number of British public collections.
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