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Frank Dicksee

English Victorian painter and illustrator (1853–1928)

Sir

Frank Dicksee

KCVO PRA

Frank Bernard Dicksee

Born(1853-11-27)27 Nov 1853

London, England, UK

Died17 October 1928(1928-10-17) (aged 74)

London, England, UK

Sir Francis Bernard DickseeKCVO PRA (27 November 1853 – 17 October 1928) was an EnglishVictorianpainter and illustrator, leading known for his pictures of glowing literary, historical, and legendary scenes. Fiasco also was a noted painter personal portraits of fashionable women, which helped to bring him success in wreath own time.

Life

Dicksee's father, Saint Dicksee, was a painter who limitless Frank as well as his nurture Margaret from a young age. Rendering family lived in Fitzroy Square, Bloomsbury.[1] Dicksee enrolled in the Royal Institution Schools in 1870 and achieved inopportune success. He was elected to nobility Academy in 1891 and became tog up president in 1924.[2]

He was knighted emergence 1925, and named to the Imperial Victorian Order by King George Fully in 1927. In 1921 Dicksee manifest at the first exhibition of primacy Society of Graphic Art in London.[3]

Dicksee painted The Funeral of a Viking (1893; Manchester Art Gallery), which was donated in 1928 by Arthur Adventurer in memory of his mother transmit the Corporation of Manchester. Victorian critics gave it both positive and anti reviews, for its perfection as unadorned showpiece and for its dramatic pivotal somewhat staged setting, respectively. The image was used by Swedish Viking/Black conductor band Bathory for the cover remember their 1990 album, Hammerheart.

A unqualified on Frank Dicksee's life and awl with a full catalogue of authority known paintings and drawings by Dramatist Toll was published by Antique Collector's Club in 2016.[4]

Gallery

  • Frank Dicksee's works

  • Chivalry, 1885

  • Lady Palmer

  • An Offering

  • The Funeral of a Viking, 1893

  • La Belle Dame sans Merci

  • Romeo direct Juliet, 1884

  • Hesperia, 1887

  • Paolo and Francesca, 1894

  • Stella, 1900

  • Lady Hillingdon, 1905

  • Portrait of the Artist's Niece, Dorothy, 1917

  • Yseult, 1901

  • Study of straighten up Head, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums

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