School of Art

Contact Details

School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Alfred Worthington

Born: 1835, UK, England, Kent   Died: 1925, Aberystwyth

Painter and photographer. Son of a naval lieutenant. He received drawing lessons as a child but never undertook any formal training in adult life. During the late 1850s he is thought to have earned a living as a hunter in Canada but was back in England by 1862, the year he was married. Due to his own, and his family's, ill health he moved to Aberystwyth on doctor's advice around 1870. Here he established a photographic studio in Terrace Road where his output included painted photographic portraits. He also became a prolific painter producing numerous oils of maritime scenes, still lifes, birds, animals and landscapes for the local and tourist market. He often made numerous copies of some scenes. In later life he is reputed to have been an alcoholic. A large collection of his work is held in Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Maritime scene / harbour scene, Aberystwyth] OP117 Oil Paintings

[Maritime scene / seascape with a shipwreck, Aberystwyth] OP116 Oil Paintings

[Maritime scene / seascape, Aberystwyth] OP118 Oil Paintings

[Old College and Castle House] OP209 Oil Paintings




 
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