On 13th October 1817 [his father] Benjamin East [aged 21] and [his mother] Elizabeth Wright [aged 18] were married.
On 15th December 1844 Alfred East was born to Benjamin East [aged 48] and Elizabeth Wright [aged 45] at Lower Street, Kettering. He was their youngest child. Alfred attended the local grammar school and took up his father's occupation as a shoe clicker before becoming a commercial traveller in boots & shoes and was a partner in Charles East & Co., shoe manufacturers at Kettering.
In 1871 Alfred East [aged 26] was boarding at 5 Queen Street, St George's, Glasgow and studying at the Glasgow School of Art, later studying at Académie Julian and L'Ecole Des Beaux Arts, under William-Adolphe Bougereau (1825-1905), in Paris.
In 1874 Alfred East [aged 29] and Sarah Annie Heath [aged 29] were married.
In 1876 [his mother] Elizabeth Wright [aged 77] died.
In 1882 [his father] Benjamin East [aged 86] died.
. Around 1885. Alfred East [aged 40]. "An English Farmstead".
. 1897. Alfred East [aged 52]. "The Sleepy River Somme".
In 1899 Alfred East [aged 54] was elected Associate of the Royal Academy.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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. Around 1903. Alfred East [aged 58]. "Château Gaillard [Map]".
In 1906 Alfred East [aged 61] was elected President of the Royal Society of British Artists, which position he held until his death.
1907. Philip de László [aged 37]. Portrait of Alfred East [aged 62].
In 1910 Alfred East [aged 65] was knighted.
. 1912. Alfred East [aged 67]. Self-portrait.
. Before 1913. Alfred East [aged 68]. "Kirkstall Abbey, West Yorkshire [Map]".
In 1913 Alfred East [aged 68] was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy.
On 28th September 1913 Alfred East [aged 68] died at his London residence in Belsize Park.