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East, Sir Alfred
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- East, Alfred
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1844-1913
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East is best known for his romantic landscapes in oil and watercolour, but he also worked as an etcher and aquatinter. He moved to Glasgow from Kettering in Northamptonshire where his family had a shoe making business, and began attending The Glasgow School of Art as an evening student. He later went on to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
In 1889 he spent 6 months painting in Japan, and the work this inspired was extremely popular and commercially successful. He also painted in Spain. His book, "The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour" was published in 1906.
East was elected President of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1906, was awarded a Knighthood by King Edward VII in 1910, and made a Royal Academician in 1913
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- GSA Records
- The East family history website, www.eastfhs.org