Code: 10211
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Alphonse Legros
French 1837 - 1911 (Died Watford)
A tree lined stream with cottage
Etching, signed in pencil, unframed
Alphonse Legros was a French born British painter, etcher and sculpor, now remembered chiefly for his graphics on macabre and fantastic themes. An excellent draughtsman, he taught in London, revitalising British drawing and printmaking during a low ebb. Encouraged by Whistler, legros settled in London in 1863 and taught etching until his appointment as Slade Professor of Fine Art, University College, London 1876-92