Alfred Elmore
(1815 - 1881)
 

Alfred Elmore RA was a British history and genre painter. Born in Clonakilty, Ireland, the son of John Richard Elmore, a surgeon who retired from the British Army to Clonakilty. His family moved to London, where Elmore studied at the Royal Academy of Arts. His early works were in the troubadour style of Richard Parkes Bonington, but he soon graduated to religious work, notably The Martyrdom of Thomas à Becket, commissioned by Daniel O'Connell for Westland Row Church in Dublin. Between 1840 and 1844 Elmore travelled across Europe, visiting Munich, Venice, Bologna, and Florence.

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Two Gentlemen of Verona
1857
Oil on canvas
70 x 53,9
Royal Academy of Arts, London
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/subject-from-two-gentlemen-of-verona

Valentine kissing Silvia's hand, mistakenly thinking that the Duke sleeps. The old man sits there, head slumped, feigning sleep, but all the time keeping a watchful eye. Elmore thus depicts a scene we do not actually see on the stage.