ALFRED GOMERSAL VICKERS (BRITISH,1810-1837)

ALFRED GOMERSAL VICKERS (BRITISH,1810-1837)
Shipping off the coast
watercolour
18.5 x 34.5 cm. (7 1/4 x 13 1/2 in.)

Trained by his father, Vickers was influenced by the watercolourists Richard Parkes Bonington and François Louis Thomas Francia. Both exquisite draughtsmen. A precocious talent, at 17, he debuted at the Royal Academy with ‘A Market Boat Off Harwich’ and a year later he achieved a gold medal at the Society of Arts. All the leading venues beckoned - the British Institution, Suffolk Street, and the New Watercolour Society to name but a few.