3-071-212 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Mr Alfred Elmore, R A., 1881. Engraving from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company. 'An artist of very considerable ability - a most worthy, amiable man - is lost to us by the death...of Mr. Alfred Elmore, R.A., in the sixty-sixth year of his age, after a long and painful illness, caused by an accident which brought on disease of the hip-joint...His family removed to London when he was about twelve, and, conceiving a love of art, young Elmore commenced his studies by drawing from the antique statues in the British Museum. In 1832, he became a student of the Royal Academy..Mr. Elmore continued his studies in the Louvre and in a private atelier; and, subsequently to an interval spent in England, returned to the Continent in 1840, staying for some time at Munich, visiting Venice, Florence, Bologna, and remaining finally two years at Rome. Meanwhile he had painted several religious subjects, including "The Martyrdom of Thomas a Becket," which was commissioned by Daniel O'Connell, exhibited at the Academy in 1840, and is now in a church in Dublin. Thenceforward the artist's works, exhibited at the Academy or the British Institution, are numerous, and mostly in the walk of historical-genre, or illustrations of poetry and romance'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.