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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Alphonse Legros, a painter and printmaker, teacher and sculptor, studied in France but settled in England encouraged by his friend, the artist James McNeill Whistler (1836-1903). Courbet was a great influence on Legros, who became successful in interpreting realist subjects. The Symbolism of the 1890s encouraged his taste for the macabre and he produced numerous etchings with dark themes. When Legros executed this work, he had been appointed Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Art, and gave lectures to the pupils of the Institute of Paisley in December 1879. According to the Paisley Gazette of September 1880, Legros executed this oil sketch portrait on 12 December, 1879, in 1½ hrs. Legros presented many works by himself and his pupils to the Institute. | Subjects: | portrait; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Legros, Alphonse (French painter, sculptor, printmaker, 1837-1911) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8513... | Go to resource |
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