Monastery in Snow
Edward Harrison Compton (Feldafing 1881 - Feldafing 1960)
Lot-No. 119
Proceeds : 3.500 €
Oil/canvas, 91 x 131 cm, lo. ri. sign. E. Harrison Compton München, some dam. - German landscape painter. C. was trained by his father, the landscape painter Edward Theodore C., who came from London to Lake Starnberg. Therafter he also studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Like his father C. began painting alpine landscapes but later he expanded his repertoire to landscapes from Italy and Englend. Since 1907 he exhibited at the Munich Kunstverein. Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
Edward Harrison Compton: Monastery in Snow
Edward Harrison Compton (Feldafing 1881 - Feldafing 1960)
Monastery in Snow
Lot-No. 119
Proceeds : 3.500 €
Oil/canvas, 91 x 131 cm, lo. ri. sign. E. Harrison Compton München, some dam. - German landscape painter. C. was trained by his father, the landscape painter Edward Theodore C., who came from London to Lake Starnberg. Therafter he also studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Like his father C. began painting alpine landscapes but later he expanded his repertoire to landscapes from Italy and Englend. Since 1907 he exhibited at the Munich Kunstverein. Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
