Oil on board signed & dated bottom right.  Provenance : Bruxelles private collection – Bordeaux private collection

The Anglo-Belgian A.W. Finch was a painter and graphic artist, impressed by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac who changed his own painting style from a more realistic approach into a pointillistic style. Becoming in the early 1890’s one of the leading representatives of his style with Théo van Rysselberghe in Belgium. During the early 1890s Finch switched careers from painting to pottery, upon the realization that he couldn't make a living by painting. In 1897, invited by count Louis Sparre, Finch moved to Porvoo, Finland, to head the Iris ceramics factory, and influenced the development of the local Jugendstil. Paintings & ceramic works can be seen in the Museum of Applied Arts and in Ateneum in Helsinki, in the Porvoo Museum and in the Turku Art Museum.

Alfred William Finch 1854-1930 Ateneum, the Museum of Applied Arts. Exhibition Catalogue 1991.