xt7qjq0stw34_5418 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Alfred Boyd Houghton letters, with clipping text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Alfred Boyd Houghton letters, with clipping 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_63/Folder_2/Multipage28641.pdf 1872 May-[1875 November 23] 1875 1872 May-[1875 November 23] section false xt7qjq0stw34_5418 xt7qjq0stw34 % .332 3ALFRED BOYD HOUGHTON..I’«/”/.§‘~

\VE observe with great regret the announceinetafit
of the death of Mr. Alfred Boyd Hone-Mop), e
painter and wood—designer, on November .40; he
was buried on the 27th in Paddington Qemetei y.
He was still a young man, only thirty-nine years

of awe. Following after the deaths of Mason,

“Talker, and Pinwell, the loss of Mr. Houghton

leaves a real gap in the ranks of the rising men
from whom truly fine things were to be looked
for: as a designer he was perhaps even more
decidedly gifted with genius than any of the
other three. He had invention and peculiarity,
strong draughtsmanship, good powers of combina-
tion, unfailing resource, inexhaustible readiness.
‘Vith a certain turn for singularity drifting to-
wards the grotesque, he always drew firmly and
executed solidly: the union of these qualities
gave him his special cachet, and perhaps, since the
maturity (now dating many years back) of the
endlessly facile and capable John Gilbert, no de—
signer for the wood has worked with more gift
and vigour than Houg-hton, or has produced
drawings more worthy of being collected and
prized as a series. Some of his productions will
be found in the illustrated Arabian Nil/Ms, in Fan,
in the Graphic, and nuinerously diffused else-
where. He was also a painter in oils and water-
colours—some of his principal works having: been
exhibited at the \Vater-colour Society. Except
in colour, his pictures were just as fine as his
woodcuts, showing the same tendency and the
same supereminence. They ought to be valuable
in the market already, and more so with the
lapse of years. In colour Houghton had a special
difficulty to contend with. He had lost one eye
at an early age; the other eye suffered a cor—
responding reduction of power; and he was at
times not much better than colour—bliud—indeed
his eyesight in all respects was both feeble and
precarious. Indomitably resolved to be a painter,
he came nearer, year by year, to conquering his
difficulty with colours. Even his earlier works
are fairly discriminative in this respect, though
marred by a certain purplish-brown tinge: his
recent productions presented no peculiarity of
colour to excite remark, becoming; constantly more
mellow and more varied, and it is probable that
within a few years, had he lived, Houg'hton would
have been on a par with all ordinary painters,
accomplished in their art but not specially colour-
ists. Mr. Houghton, who was twice married,
leaves a young family, and, among his friends,
the memory of a kindly, frank, energetic character.
,3, XV. M. Rossnrrr.
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