VICKERS, ALFRED SENIOR (English, 1796-1868) (ATTRIBUTED TO) "Cattle in a River Landscape." Indistinctly inscribed verso. Oil on board, 6" x 9" (sight); 7" x 10 1/4" (framed). Price Category: A

Alfred Vickers, Sr. was a self-taught landscape and seascape painter, who painted from nature. His light and sparkling style has been compared by one critic to the work of Boudin. His son Alfred Gomersal Vickers was also a painter. Vickers exhibited 125 works at the British Institute and many others at the Royal Academy from 1814-1867; he also exhibited at the Suffolk St. Galleries. Examples of the artist's work have brought good prices at London galleries and at auctions in the UK. His paintings are represented in museums in Glasgow, Leicester, Nottingham, and Sheffield. Vickers is noted for his English views, especially river scenes, executed in a rapid, sketchy style, using a distinctive range of pale greens. The most appealing trait of Vickers' works is their coloring, achieved through the light, clear tones that he laid on in thin oil washes. He produced many charming small works, such as this one, which can be hung or displayed on a stand or other piece of furniture, using its dual purpose frame. Provenance: Bonhams, London , January 2004. References: E. Bénézit, Dictionary of Artists (Grund: Paris, 2006). Denys Brook-Hart, British 19th Century Marine Painting (Antique Collectors Club: Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1974). E. H. H. Archibald, The Dictionary of Sea Painters of Europe and America (Antique Collectors Club: Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2000). Christopher Wood, The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, 2nd ed. (Barron: Woodbridge, 1978).

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