An exhibition of works by Alphonse Legros, born at Dijon 8 May 1837. Legros came to London in 1863, where he lived and worked till 1905, with intervals spent in a cottage at Brasted Chart in Kent; he then moved to Watford, where he died on 8 December 1911.
Much of his English life was spent in teaching, first in the class of etching at South Kensington, afterwards as assistant and successor to Sir Edward Poynter at the Slade School University: his professorship lasted from 1876 till 1892.
