George Samuel Elgood His Life and Work 1851-1943 by Eckstein, Eve - 1995

London: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1995. Nearly 2 kg to post & some 230pp. dj rated as fair due to a repaired tear lower right (see pic). Elgood was an English artist and illustrator who became well known for his paintings of formal gardens. He was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, one of a family of 7 boys and 2 girls. After a private education at various schools, including Bloxham, he studied art at Leicester Art School under Wilmot Pilsbury, and then architectural drawing at the South Kensington Schools in London. In the early 1880s, he was able to pursue art full-time, becoming a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) in 1882 and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) a few years later. He exhibited several times at the Fine Art Society between 1890-1925. Elgood became known mainly as a painter of historic gardens, travelling throughout England, France, Spain and Italy in the course of his professional life. Many of his pictures were used to illustrate Some English Gardens (1904) by the famous garden designer Gertrude Jekyll and Italian Gardens (1907) which Elgood wrote himself.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 28.5cm.