Watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, signed, 18ins x 13 3/4ins
Best known for his sensitive, atmospheric studies of fisherfolk ,Hector Caffieri was a wide-ranging painter of landscapes and genre scenes .
Hector Caffieri was born in Cheltenham , one of eight children of Hector St Cyr Caffieri (1817-1890), a wine merchant of French descent, and his wife, Mary (1820-1888). When his parents died, in Boulogne, they were calling themselves âCaffieri de Beauvallonâ. During his youth, the family lived in Cheltenham, including 7 Painswick Lawn and 24 Montpelier Walk. He began to exhibit at the Society of British Artists in 1869, while living at the second address. (The society gained its royal charter in 1887.).
Although an English artist, he spent many years in France where he also studied at the Academy Julian. He exhibited his work in England and France.
