E A Phipson - "St Andrew's St, Hertford 1880."

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

1982.2016

Watercolour painting of St Andrew's St, Hertford Evacustes A. Phipson 1880. The view towards the town with the church just in the right foreground and a man and a woman on the street outside. An early and roughly finished work. 160 x 103 mm. One of England's most prolific landscape watercolourists, Phipson was christened Edward Arthur, however as a young man he developed a keen interest in languages which led him to change his name to the Greek Word Evacustes meaning 'ready listener'. His paintings represent an idealised image of a time of great change. He omitted the lamp posts, telegraph poles and motor cars that spoilt a good view. The museum under the direction of Frederick Kitton purchased a large collection of his Hertfordshire watercolours between 1900 and 1910 whilst he was living in London.

1880

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Amy Cooke

3) MoStA Archive Room

St Andrew's St., Hertford, Hertfordshire, UK.

PWD Box 73

Picturesque St. Albans

05/05/2005