James Alphege Brewer - Large Signed 1911 Etching Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen)

Description

A fine etching by the artist James Alphege Brewer (act.c.1909-c.1938), depicting a view of Aix-la-Chapelle in Aachen, Germany. The crisp plate strike conveys fine architectural details and intricate figures. The artist has signed the work in graphite, below the plate. There is also a blindstamp to the lower left below the plate. Signed. On wove.

Condition

Soft creasing to corners. 1cm tear to lower edge of page. Overall discolouration and age toning present. Wear and remnants of tape to outer edges of page. Main image unaffected.

Size

52.6 x 34.6cm (20.7" x 13.6")
Sheet: 73.8 x 54.2cm (29.1" x 21.3")
Plate: 55 x 36.5cm (21.7" x 14.4")

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Artist Biography

British artist James Alphege Brewer, known for his etchings of European cathedrals and other scenes of church, college, and community, was born in the 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. Brewer died in Action, west London.