Alfred Vickers Snr
British, (1786-1868)

Rustic Bridge at Edmonton
Oil on canvas, signed
11 inches x 15 inches

Alfred Vickers was landscape and marine artist who was born in 1786 in Newington Surrey. He was a self taught artist who found fame later in life as the "Cockney Constable", first exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1831 at the age of 45. Over the subsequent 40 years he exhibited 267 works with 67 at the Royal Academy and 125 at the British Institute. He also exhibited at Suffolk Street. He painted many scenes of Britain, particularly of Middlesex, the Isle of Wight and Wales in a distinctive palette of pale greens and a light and sparkling style. His son Alfred Gomersal (1810-1837) was also a landscape painter. Vickers was known to be living in the Lambeth area around 1810, later moving to Middlesex. He died near Edmonton in 1868. A number of his works can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Guildhall as well as in the public collections of Glasgow, Sheffield, Nottingham and Wolverhampton.

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