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Alexander Mann NEAC ROI (Scottish, 1853-1908) TANG

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Alexander Mann NEAC ROI (Scottish, 1853-1908) TANG

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Auction Date:2005 Feb 22 @ 18:00 (UTC)
Location:Ireland
Alexander Mann NEAC ROI (Scottish, 1853-1908) TANGIER inscribed and dated [1891] on reverse oil on canvas 36 by 53cm., 14 by 21in. Exhibited: (?) RBA, 1891, catalogue no. 21 (as On the Beach Tangier, £15) or RBA, 1892, catalogue no. 206 (as Along the Shore: Tangiers, £20) Born in Glasgow and trained under Carolus Duran (1838-1917), Alexander Mann specialised in genre and Orientalist subjects, exhibiting principally with the Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, the Fine Art Society the ROI and the RA in London. He arrived in the famous ‘White City’ of Tangier in 1890-91, at the same time of his fellow countryman Sir John Lavery’s first visit, and showed Moroccan scenes at various exhibitions from 1890-95, including one at the RHA (Fisherman, Tangier), which was most probably submitted on Lavery’s suggestion. The two men travelled to Seville together in the early months of 1892 en route to England (ref. Kenneth McConkey, Sir John Lavery, Canongate Press, 1993, p. 86). Great similarities exist between their work, as can be seen by comparing the present example with Lavery’s Tangier - the White City (ill. McConkey fig. 102), and in particular the small study for this work (McConkey fig. 103) which is executed in almost identical proportions to Mann’s painting. Both men’s works are painted from the same vantage point, looking along the bay to the small peninsular, with Arab figures and tents scattered about the shore. Interestingly Mann’s work predates that of Lavery’s by two years. Further examples of Mann’s work can be seen in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.