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The Alfred Hallett Art Gallery

preserving the artist's legacy


Dharamkot	Abstracts	Nudes	Portraits	Religious

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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A new web-site and online shop of high-resolution reproductions of Hallett's work is under construction. Prints will be available for purchase and shipping worldwide. Many of the images on the new site will have additional information (if known), such as the title Hallett gave to his work, size of the original painting, and provenance and current location including any stolen paintings and works destroyed in the studio fire of 1989. For more information on this project (slated for launch in 2010 in time to commemorate 25 years of his passing) please contact Martin Watson ( webmaster(at)dharamsalanet.com )

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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