Alfred Augustus Glendening

(1840 – 1910)

 Alfred August Glendening, Snr. was most famous for his British landscape painting during the last century.  He lived for many years in the Old Kent Road, London, from whence he travelled to many famous places in Scotland, Devon and North Wales, and he was perhaps best known for his Highland landscapes.

His great love of the rural scene took him to Surrey, Kent and Sussex where the rich pastures engendered in him such inspiration to paint.  He exhibited in Suffolk Street in 1861 and at the Royal Academy in 1865, where his work appeared regularly.  Glendening’s paintings are to be found in provincial galleries as well as those in Sydney and Adelaide, Australia.