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  • ALFRED WILLIAM HASSAM (1843-1869)
    Jan. 21, 2025

    ALFRED WILLIAM HASSAM (1843-1869)

    Est: £400 - £600

    ALFRED WILLIAM HASSAM (1843-1869) ALFRED WILLIAM HASSAM (1843-1869) Jason and The Dragon (After Salvator Rosa) monogrammed & inscribed 'AH from SR' (lower left) pen and ink 27.5 x 19.5 cm. (10 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.) Alfred Hassam is something of a mysterious figure in the history of Victorian art. Born in London, his father Charles Hassam was a vellum binder in a printing office, and his mother was the granddaughter of the sculptor James Tyley. Nothing is known of Hassam’s early training as an artist, though he is likely to have spent time at one of the London art schools, and is thought possibly to have studied under John Clayton, a prominent stained-glass designer. Alfred became one of the principal designers of stained glass at Heaton, Butler & Bayne, then among the most influential and largest of the companies specialising in the field in Victorian Britain. Hassam won the first prize for 'colour in stained glass' awarded by the Ecclesiologist Society in 1862, and later won a prize for his glass designs for the north staircase of the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria & Albert Museum) in 1865. Hassam painted in watercolours and oils, as well as drawing several works in pen & ink, in which the very closely-hatched lines are directly comparable to the present sheet (with two examples now in the British Museum, acc. nos. 2019,7015.1843 & 184 ). He exhibited at the Society of British Artists, the Dudley Gallery, and the Royal Academy, and seems to have been a peripheral figure in the world of avant-garde art in London, perhaps interacting with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (and certainly with Henry Holiday, a fellow employee of Heaton, Butler & Bayne). His premature death at 27 is largely responsible for his having been all but forgotten, and there are precious few extant works known to us.

    Chiswick Auctions
  • Alfred Hassam (c.1866)
    Nov. 29, 2006

    Alfred Hassam (c.1866)

    Est: £500 - £800

    'A softened lustre in her eye, all crimson like the rose, scarce tinged her cheek' signed and dated 'Hassam 2/66' (lower left) and further inscribed with title (on the reverse) pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (23.4 x 15.8 cm.)

    Christie's
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