Alfred De Breanski, Jr. (British, 1877-1957), Off the Giudecca, Venice (Il Redentore)

Lot Details & Additional Photographs

Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, inscribed to verso, retaining label from A. Vivian Mansell & Co. of London to stretcher, presented in a later frame.

Stretcher size 18 x 26 in.; Frame dimensions 23 1/2 x 31 1/2 in.

Alfred Fontville de Breanski, Jr. was born in London into a prominent family of painters and trained under his father, the noted Victorian landscape artist Alfred de Bréanski Sr., as well as at St. Martin’s School of Art. Best known for his atmospheric landscapes and garden scenes, he was influenced early by the naturalism of his father before absorbing elements of Impressionism and Symbolism during travels to France in the 1890s, where he encountered the work of artists such as Whistler, Monet, and Sisley. De Breanski exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists, earning recognition for his luminous depictions of the English and Welsh countryside. He also designed posters for London’s Underground Electric Railways Company.

Minor stable craquelure; light surface grime.