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Helsby (Hazel), Alfredo
(b 1862; d 1933). Chilean painter. He studied painting under Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma (1856–1909) c. 1885, and under Juan Francisco González, before travelling in 1907 on a government grant to Europe, where he exhibited at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français in Paris and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. While in Europe he became acquainted with contemporary artistic tendencies and with the work of earlier artists, notably Turner, whose physical representation of light-filled, wet atmosphere he emulated. Helsby, who was attracted from an early age to landscape painting, superimposed the most delicate hallucinations on visions of reality; in paintings such as Rainbow over the Canals of Chiloé (Santiago, Mus. N. B.A.) he pulverized the plasticity of his forms with a puzzling technique that transformed them into a diaphanous surface of air, light and reflections. Such interests affected also his outdoor figure scenes, such as Paseo Atkinson (Valparaíso, Mus. Mun. B.A.), which were essentially naturalistic in approach.
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