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Albert Henry Collings RBA d.1947 Collings was born, trained, and lived all his life in London.
Working in oils, water-colour, and pastel, he specialised in figure subjects and
portraits, for which he received a number of official commissions. He exhibited
for many years at the Royal Society of British Artists, showing a total of 98
works and being elected a member in 1897. He also supported the Royal Academy
(29 works, 1896-1938) and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours, and
showed at the Paris Salon, where he was awarded a gold medal for a portrait in
1907. Examples of his portraiture are at Harrow and in the Theatre Royal, Drury
Lane, and Portsmouth Town Hall; but for such a fluent and relatively prolific
artist, his work is now rare. |