Alfred William Finch (1854-1930)

Aliases: A. W. Finch; Alfred Finch; Alfred-William Finch; William Finch; Willy Finch

Professions: Painter; Etcher

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Alfred William Finch Biography

(b Brussels, 28 Nov 1854; d Helsinki, 1930). Belgian painter and potter. He studied painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts et Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Brussels from 1878 to 1880. He was a founder-member of Les XX (see > VINGT> , LES), a group of 20 avant-garde artists who held annual exhibitions of paintings and decorative arts between 1884 and 1895. Initially Finch painted land- and seascapes in the Impressionist style. In 1887—after Seurat and Camille Pissarro exhibited with Les XX—Finch adopted their divisionist painting technique. An early work in the Neo-Impressionist style, the Race Course at Ostende (1888; Helsinki, Athenaeum A. Mus.), shows his unfamiliarity with this new technique. His subsequent proficiency is evident in the work English Coast at Dover (1891; Helsinki, Athenaeum A. Mus.), which also makes use of a border constructed of divisionist dots, a device he borrowed from Seurat. Finch came to excel at rendering the atmospheric effect of the damp climate of the Channel coast—his main subject—through the use of widely spaced dots in related colour values. Finch served as a liaison between Les XX and the contemporary British art world. He invited Whistler to participate in the first exhibition of Les XX in Brussels in 1884. In return Whistler arranged for Finch to exhibit with the Society of British Artists in London in 1887 and 1888.

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