preserving the artist's legacy
| Alfred Hallett: born 1914 in England, exhibited twice at the
Royal Academy, London (1937 and 1938) before migrating to British India in 1940 where he managed a cloth mill in Dhariwal, Punjab.
He was able to buy the property on Dharamkot to pursue his love of painting
full-time. Known primarily as a figure painter, his prolific output of
portraits, landscapes and imaginative religious and abstract oil paintings
can be seen today from Amritsar to New Delhi as well as on walls in Southern
England and as far away as Australia and New Zealand.
Shazman, his devoted manservant and travelling partner was frequently a subject of his portraits, as well as the Butterworth family, and an assortment of Rajas, Maharanis, Military personnel, and the local Gaddi shepherds. Margaret, his love in later life, would visit him for companionship in his mountain-top studio and hermitage. A gentleman to the end he died on Dharamkot in 1986, aged 72.
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| CD-ROM or DVD - The Alfred Hallett Art Gallery, and now including many other never seen before paintings from the digital database (currently totalling over 130 images), is available on disc for IND Rs. 5,000/- plus postage (or currency equivalent). THIS ITEM IS CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK. |
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