Live Auction 17199British & European Art: Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
Edwin John Alexander (1870-1926)
Lot 28 Property from the Alan M. Fortunoff Collection

Edwin John Alexander (1870-1926)

A peacock and marguerites

Closed11 July 2019

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Edwin John Alexander (1870-1926)
A peacock and marguerites
signed and dated 'Edwin Alexander /99' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on buff oatmeal paper
27 3/8 x 21 in. (69.6 x 53.4 cm.)

Possibly, Mr Currie.
Mrs Richard White (née Currie).
Colonel P.C. Macfarlane.
Lady Selway.
with The Fine Art Society, London, where purchased by
Mr & Mrs Alan Fortunoff, 1985.

Specialist note

Having studied at the Edinburgh School of Art, Alexander spent four years from 1892 to 1896 living in Egypt, in a houseboat on the Nile. The exotic intensity of colour in this watercolour, dated 1899, may reflect the influence of that time. He is best known for his depictions of birds, flowers and grasses in his native Scotland, and the use here of rough oatmeal paper is typical of his work.