Augustus Walford Weedon

Off to the Fishing Grounds, 1895.

Augustus Walford (A.W.) Weedon was born in 1838 in London. He was a landscape painter in watercolour, and was the auditor of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1887[1] when James McNeill Whistler was President.

His many scenes included works from Sussex, Hampshire and Scotland[2][3] and one artwork is present in the panels of the lounge at the Inn in Fittleworth. He died in 1908.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/biog/display/?bid=Weed_AW
  2. ↑ http://www.exhibitionculture.arts.gla.ac.uk/indexlist.php?kid=642
  3. ↑ http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_illustration.jsp?item_id=45572
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Wood, Christopher, The Dictionary of Victorian Artists 2nd ed., revised, Woodbridge, 1978.


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