Alan Walton (1891–1948)
Constania From Rhodes Memorial
year unknown
oil on canvas
48.5 x 63.5 cm
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, Allan Walton was a British Impressionist and Modern painter, a designer of interiors and fabrics, and a teacher.
He abandoned his studies in an architect’s office to learn to paint under Stanhope Forbes, in Cornwall, then from was at Slade School of Fine Art and in Paris at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière (1913 – 16).
After World War I, he studied with Walter Sickert at Westminster School of Art.
In London, he began to exhibit and set up as an interior designer, in 1925 designing Marcel Boulestin’s first restaurant in Leicester Square. He had his first one-man show at Beaux Arts Gallery in 1928 and another at Arthur Tooth and Son in 1933. His work was featured in the painting event of the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.