ALEXANDER JAMES MAVROGORDATO (1868 – 1947)
"Crofters Cottage in Highland River Landscape"
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour.
13 ¾" x 21" Signed. From the Artist's Studio
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Alexander
James Mavrogordato was a painter in watercolour and
sometimes oil, of landscapes and figures.
He is believed to be of Greek extraction. He lived in London but also painted abroad in Italy, Algeria and Russia. His earlier works
were highly finished watercolours, typical of the Victorian era but his later
work took on an impressionistic style.
He travelled widely, holding a one-man exhibition of his Russian views
in 1896 and another in 1910 of Greek, Italian and English landscapes. He exhibited at the Fine Art Society, the
Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Walker Gallery Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, the New Gallery, the Royal Academy, the Royal Hibernian
Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters
in Watercolours, Ridley Art Club and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. He lived at Edenbridge
in Kent and was an active member of the Brighton Arts Club
exhibiting 96 works from 1906 to 1925.
He died at the age of 78 on 16th February 1947.
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