Alfred Vickers

[Sheep by a Church in an extensive wooded Landscape] 1856

oil on canvas

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1786 - 1868.

Landscape painter, self-taught. Exhibited at the RA (125 works) and elsewhere. Painted viws often with river scenes in a rapid, sketchy style using a range of pale greens which are distinctive. His son Alfred Gomersal Vickers was also a painter.

http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/artist/2493/Alfred_Vickers
http://www.artyprints.co.uk/index.cfm?event=catalogue.artist&artistID=2493

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/sudley/collections/diningroom/coast_scene_vickers.aspx