Lot 8: Abbey (Aby) A Altson (1864-1949) Oil on canvas

Abbey (Aby) A Altson (1864-1949) Oil on canvas Portrait of a red haired Russian girl Signed lower right 23 1/2 x 19 1/2" Altson was an Australian Classicist painter. Born in Yorkshire , he moved to Melbourne, Australia to study. In the early 1880's after several years there and having won a Gold Medal for painting he returned to England stopping at Paris in 1949 to further his studies. He settled in London becoming a successful portrait painter, taking his lead from Lord Leighton, Alma Tadema, Waterhouse and Godward. Towards the end of his life he settled in America and died there in 1949