STEVENS, Alfred.
A Painter's Philosophy. Being a Translation of the ‚"Impressions sur la Peinture" of Alfred Stevens by Ina Mary White.
Photogravure frontispiece portrait of the author, signed by him: ‘votre ami Alfred Stevens’
A very good copy of an attractive book, published only two years before his death: despite his anglo-sounding name, Stevens, 1823- 1906, was born in Brussels of an impeccably Belgian family of artistic leanings. His realistic paintings, notably of women, were very commercially successful and he made and spent a fortune.
