EAST, ALFRED (1849-1913), British painter and etcher, was born at Kettering, Northamptonshire, on Dec. 15, He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and then in Paris at the l?cole des Beaux-Arts, and under Robert Fleury and Bougue reau. He began to exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1883, and became R.A. in 1913 a few months before his death. In 1906 he became president of the Royal Society of British Artists. Many of his works are to be found in the English provincial galleries; his "Passing Storm" is at the Luxembourg, Paris; "The Nene Valley" at the Venice gallery; and "A Haunt of Ancient Peace" at the National gallery in Budapest. East visited Japan in 1889, and among his best works are the landscapes he painted there. From 1902 onwards he took a keen interest in etching, and pro duced a large number of plates. He also published a useful, prac tical book on landscape painting, The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour (1906). Shortly before his death he presented a collection of his pictures to his native town, Kettering. He died in London on Sept. 28, 1913.