Alfred Vickers, Sr. was born in London, England and died there. Attached below is an edited excerpt from a biography prepared by Art in the Afternoon, L.L.C.

Alfred Vickers, Sr. was a self-taught landscape and seascape painter, who painted from nature. His light and sparkling style has been compared by one critic to the work of Boudin. His son Alfred Gomersal Vickers was also a painter. Vickers exhibited 125 works at the British Institute and many others at the Royal Academy from 1814 - 1867; he also exhibited at the Suffolk St. Galleries.

His paintings are represented in museums in Glasgow, Leicester, Nottingham, and Sheffield.

Vickers is noted for his English views, especially river scenes, executed in a rapid, sketchy style, using a distinctive range of pale greens. The most appealing trait of Vickers' works is their coloring, achieved through the light, clear tones that he laid on in thin oil washes.

Sources:

E. Bénézit, Dictionary of Artists (Grund: Paris, 2006)

Denys Brook-Hart, British 19th Century Marine Painting (Antique Collectors Club: Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1974)

E. H. H. Archibald, The Dictionary of Sea Painters of Europe and America (Antique Collectors Club: Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2000)

Christopher Wood, The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, 2nd ed. (Barron: Woodbridge, 1978)

Source:
Art in the Afternoon, L.L.C. - http://artintheafternoon.net/Vickers.htm

Prepared and contributed to askART by M.D. Silverbrooke

ALFRED VICKERS, Senior

1786 – 1868

Alfred Vickers Senior was an English painter of landscapes and coastal marines known as the ‘Cockney Constable’, born in 1786 in Newington, Surrey.

Vickers was self-taught and 45 years old when he first exhibited at the Royal Academy, after which he made up for lost time exhibiting 267 works over the next 40 years, including 67 at the Royal Academy and 125 at the British Institute.

From his various London addresses he travelled widely to paint throughout the country with particular affection for Wales and the Isle of Wight; and occasionally visited the Continent. His English views are painted in a rapid, confident hand with a range of distinctive pale greens and his light and sparkling style has been compared to Boudin. Vickers coastal views are sheer delight, his light almost feathery style is well suited to the shallow coastal waters and skies which he painted so effectively.

He is one of the most underrated 19th century English painters, his full worth is only now becoming recognized.

Vickers’ son, Alfred Gomersal Vickers was also a landscape painter.

Works in Public Collections: Glasgow; Sheffield; Nottingham; Wolverhampton; Victoria and Albert Museum; The Guildhall

Submitted by Jacob Frank

Sources:
Dictionary of British Landscape Painters - M H Grant
Dictionary of Victorian Painters - C Wood
19th Century Marine Painting by Denys Brook-Hart