Alfred Hitchens

The London Daily News reported: "...among the gold medallists, the first prize for an oil painting from the nude having been gained by Mr Alfred Hitchens, a very young man...".

His work is described in The Morning Post as: "a worthy recruit to the classic art is to be found in Mr Alfred Hitchens’ and ‘his cleverly painted picture ‘The Shadow of a Vow’.

[7] More recently, in a biography of his son, Ivon Hitchens, his paintings of that period are characterised as "in the academic mainstream of the day...

Classical mythology alternating with the sentimentalised rustic realism of the school of Bastien-Lepage..."[4] He exhibited regularly in pastels at Walker's Gallery and the Fine Art Society, London in the early 1900s.

[12] His most widely known painting, 'The Legend of the Christmas Rose'[13] is in the collection of the church of Montclair, near New York City, US.