Alfred Robert Quinton - Artist Info

About Alfred Robert Quinton

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    Alfred Robert Quinton, was born at Peckham, London in late 1853, youngest of the seven children of John Allan Quinton (1817-13 March 1906), printer & editor of periodicals, and his wife Eliza née Cullum (1818-1886), who married at Ipswich in 1840 and were of the family of Quinton of Needham Market, near Ipswich.

    About 1851, Alfred's parents moved from Ipswich to 5 Ellington Terrace, Islington, London and Alfred's father, who learned the printing trade at Burton's printing office on the Cornhill, Ipswich, was editor for the Religious Tract Society, producing various publications including the Boys Own and Girls Own papers.

    On leaving school, Alfred studied art at Heatherley's before working as a steel engrav...

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