Alfred Daniels, Hertford College , Oxford

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Alfred Daniels was born in the East End of London in 1924. After studying  at the Royal College of Art he toured Florence, Venice and Sienna and was deeply impressed by the painting of the Italian primitives. The award-winning set of murals he completed for Hammersmith Town Hall in 1954, depicting life on the Thames, is regarded as a modern classic. Around the same time the Football Association held a fine art competition whose judges included the directors of the National Gallery and the Tate; the first prize was won jointly by Alfred Daniels and L. S. Lowry.

Alfred Daniels' association with Oxford began with a commission from the Oxford University Press and continued through his friendship with the Professor of Poetry, John Wain. It resulted in a series of paintings of the city, almost all of which make reference to the university.