James Alphege Brewer (1881-1946) - Etching The Bridge of Sighs, Venice

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Description

An etching with plate tone depicting the Bridge of Sighs in Venice. Inscribed with the location and signed in graphite to the lower edge. On wove.

Condition

Overall well-presented and in very good condition. Trimmed outside the plate lines.

Size

24.1 x 14cm (9.5" x 5.5")
Framed Size: 50.1 x 33.2cm (19.7" x 13.1")

Artist Biography

James Alphege Brewer (1881-1946) was a British artist, known for his etchings of European cathedrals and other scenes of churches, colleges, and communities. He was born in Kensington, London. He was the son of Henry William Brewer, noted artist of architectural history and his great uncle was E. Cobham Brewer (1810-1897), the polymath who compiled Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Among his older siblings were the artist Henry Charles Brewer and the organist and writer John Francis Brewer, (1864-1921).

James Brewer studied at the Westminster School of Art and in 1910 he married Florence Emma Lucas, also an artist from an artistic family. James exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Paris Salon, Royal Cambrian Academy, Hampstead Society of Artists, the Society of Graphic Art, and the Ealing Arts Club, where he was first Honorary Art Secretary and then Honorary Art Chairman. Brewer’s first big success as a young artist came with etchings in colour commemorating cathedrals and other edifices destroyed or damaged during World War I. But during World War II he turned away from the war and focused on scenes of natural beauty, producing woodcuts of mountain and pastoral scenes done in the Japanese manner.

Location

Venice, Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, Italy

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SKU qs940
Artist James Alphege Brewer (1881-1946)
Date Early 20th Century
Dimensions 24.1 x 14cm
Medium Etching
Subject Architecture & Cityscapes
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