ALBERT GEORGE STEVENS 1863 – 1925
Stevens was born in Biggleswade where his father was a doctor. He studied at the Academy in Antwerp and then settled in Barnard Castle. He visited the Yorkshire coast and became a founder member of the Staithes Art Club, moving to Whitby permanently in 1902.
Most of his works were in watercolours, but he also painted oils, usually on a small scale, in a style which tended to be more impressionistic than his works on paper. This is, perhaps, because he uses a finer brush for his watercolours and these tend to be more finely finished than his broadly painted works in oils. In both, however, he manages to capture the characters and scenes of working life on the North east coast with an immediacy and realism which comes straight from its core.
There are examples of Stevens' work in permanent exhibitions of Leeds, Rochdale and Whitby art galleries. He exhibited at Walker Gallery Liverpool, the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Yorkshire Union of Artists. . He exhibited at Walker Gallery Liverpool, the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Yorkshire Union of Artists. He exhibited at the International Society, the Walker Gallery Liverpool, the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and the Yorkshire Union of Artists.
Bibliography:
Staithes Group Centenary Exhibition, Rosamund Jordan 2003
The Staithes Group, Peter Phillips, Phillips and Sons, Marlow1993
The Yorkshire Union of Artists 1888 – 1922, Dennis Child, Leeds Philosophical and
Literary Society Ltd, Leeds 2001
The Dictionary of British Artists 1880 – 1940, J. Johnson & A. Greutzner, Antique
Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge 1976
© Rosamund Jordan 2005
