Object Description
ADOLPHE RAGON
(1847-1924)
On the Road from Hildenborough to Sevenoaks, Kent
Signed in pencil l.r., inscribed with title l.l.
Watercolour over traces of pencil
Unframed, in conservation mount only
7.5 by 13.5 cm., 3 by 5 ¼ in.
(mount size 17.5 by 23.5 cm., 7 by 9 ¼ in.
Adolphe Ragon was born in London, the son of French parents. He initially worked as a French tutor whilst studying art under Lionel Constable. From the late 1870s he was working as a landscape and marine artist, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, Royal Watercolour Society and elsewhere. He lived in Felsted, Essex.