Glastonbury, Somerset - Abbey - AR Quinton (Salmon 1585) - postcard c.1920s

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• Picture / Image:  Glastonbury Abbey [Somerset] by AR Quinton
• Publisher: J Salmon (No. 1585)
• Postally used: no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
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• Notes / condition: very slight weakened corner

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Glastonbury Abbey was a monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Its ruins, a grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument, are open as a visitor attraction.

The abbey was founded in the 7th century and enlarged in the 10th. It was destroyed by a major fire in 1184, but subsequently rebuilt and by the 14th century was one of the richest and most powerful monasteries in England. The abbey controlled large tracts of the surrounding land and was instrumental in major drainage projects on the Somerset Levels. The abbey was suppressed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII of England. The last abbot, Richard Whiting (Whyting), was hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor on Glastonbury Tor in 1539.

From at least the 12th century the Glastonbury area has been associated with the legend of King Arthur, a connection promoted by medieval monks who asserted that Glastonbury was Avalon. Christian legends have claimed that the abbey was founded by Joseph of Arimathea in the 1st century.

Alfred Robert Quinton (28 October 1853 – 10 December 1934)[1] was an English watercolour artist, known for his paintings of British villages and landscapes many of which were published as postcards.

Quinton was born in Peckham in London in 1853,[2] the youngest of seven children of Elizabeth née Cullum (1818-1886) and John Allen Quinton (1817-1906), a printer, author and journalist.[1][3] On leaving school A. R. Quinton studied painting at the Heatherley School of Fine Art following which he worked as a steel engraver, but deciding on a career in art he began to work in oils in about 1874 and after in watercolour, working from a studio in Fleet Street in London and after at Lincoln's Inn, exhibiting several of his watercolour paintings at the latter with the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1882 and 1883. From 1877 Quinton exhibited watercolours at the Royal Society of British Artists.[1]

He married Elizabeth Annie Crompton (1858-1946) at Bolton in Lancashire in May 1885[4] and with her had two sons: Leonard Quinton (1886-1981) and Edgar Allan Quinton (1891-1912).[2]