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| Sir Frank Brangwyn c1900 |
Sir Frank William Brangwyn (1867 – 1956) was an Anglo-Welsh artist, painter, water colourist, engraver, illustrator and progressive designer.
Brangwyn was an artistic jack-of-all-trades. As well as paintings and drawings, he produced designs for stained glass, furniture, ceramics, table glassware, buildings and interiors, was a lithographer and woodcutter and was a book illustrator. It has been estimated that during his lifetime Brangwyn produced over 12,000 works. His mural commissions would cover over 22,000 sq ft (2,000 m2) of canvas, he painted over 1,000 oils, over 660 mixed media works (watercolours, gouache), over 500 etchings, about 400 wood engravings and woodcuts, 280 lithographs, 40 architectural and interior designs, 230 designs for items of furniture and 20 stained glass panels and windows.
Brangwyn received some artistic training, probably from his father, and later from Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo and in the workshops of William Morris, but he was largely an autodidact without a formal artistic education. When, at the age of seventeen, one of his paintings was accepted at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, he was strengthened in his conviction to become an artist. Initially he painted traditional subjects about the sea and life on the seas. His 1890 canvas, Funeral At Sea won a medal of the third class at the 1891 Paris Salon. The murals for which Brangwyn was famous, and during his lifetime he was very famous indeed, were brightly coloured and crowded with details of plants and animals, although they became flatter and less flamboyant later in his life.
This is part 1 of a 13-part series on the works of Sir Frank William Brangwyn:
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| 1880s Carnarvon Castle oil on canvas 64 x 77 cm Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, Bangor, Wales, UK |
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| c1883 Digging oil on canvas 19.2 x 24.5 cm William Morris Gallery, London |
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| 1886 A Ship Beached at Low Tide oil on canvas 50.7 x 34.5 cm William Morris Gallery, London |
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| 1886 Shipping on the Thames oil on canvas 47.5 x 58 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff, UK |
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| 1887 Mending the Nets oil on canvas 60.7 x 91 cm Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK |
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| 1887 The Lower Reaches of the Thames oil on canvas 49.5 x 75 cm Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK |
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| 1887 The Rescue oil on canvas 102 x 127 cm Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1887c Harbour Scene oil on canvas 44 x 56.5 cm Jerwood Collection, London |
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| 1888 Constructing South Pier, Mevagissey oil on canvas 51 x 76 cm Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall, UK |
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| 1888 Shipping off Fowey oil on canvas 57.2 x 76.2 |
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| 1889 All Hands Shorten Sail oil on canvas 183 x 152.5 cm Touchstones Rochdale Museum & Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1889 Stormy Weather at Sea oil on canvas National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| 1890 A Balkan Fisherman oil on canvas 30 x 20.5 cm Hampshire Cultural Trust Headquarters, Winchester, UK |
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| 1890 Home from The Graphic illustrated newspaper 25 x 33 cm |
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| 1890 Off Ostend oil on canvas 31.5 x 42.9 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff |
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| 1890 The Burial at Sea oil on canvas 154.9 x 233.7 cm Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Scotland, UK |
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| 1890-1910c Landscape, Night oil on canvas 71 x 90 cm William Morris Gallery, London |
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| c1890 In a Turkish Garden oil on wood panel 73.8 x 63.5 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
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| 1890c Turkish Bazaar etching and drypoint 16.4 x 14.3 cm (plate) |
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| c1890s-1900s On the Quay, Constantinople - An Eastern Izaak Walton from The Graphic illustrated newspaper 40 x 27 cm |
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| 1891 Aground - The Crew Take to the Rigging engraving in The Graphic illustrated newspaper 30.4 x 22.2 cm |
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| 1891 Bound to the West'ard from The Graphic illustrated newspaper 27.9 x 39.4 cm |
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| 1891 Fishermen at Funchal, Maderia oil on canvas 72.3 x 102.3 cm Museums Sheffield, UK |
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| 1891 Funchal, Madeira oil on panel 92 x 81 cm Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall, UK |
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| 1891 On the North Sea - Changing the Watch in a Gale from The Graphic illustrated newspaper 30.5 x 21.6 cm |
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| 1891 Sunlight and Shadows oil on board 41.2 x 30.4 cm Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, UK |
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| 1891 The Siesta oil on canvas 50.2 x 75.4 cm William Morris Gallery, London |
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| c1891 Pilots, Port of Pasajes, Spain oil on canvas 101.6 x 127 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1892 Gulur, 1892 oil on canvas 52.1 x 59.7 cm Moma, Machynlleth, Wales, UK |
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| 1892 Market on the Beach oil on canvas 102 x 127 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1892 The Convict Ship oil on canvas 200 x 227.5 cm |
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| 1892 The Perils of the Deep: "Run Down" from The Graphic illustrated newspaper |
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| 1893 A Gale at Sea: "Pooped" from The Graphic illustrated newspaper 30.5 x 21.6 cm |
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| 1893 A Goatherd, Gulur oil on cardboard 76.2 x 62.3 cm William Morris Gallery, London |
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| 1893 A Man Overboard: Lowering the Lifeboat from The Graphic illustrated newspaper 30.5 x 21.6 cm |
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| 1893 Goatherds Playing Dice oil on canvas 146.1 x 234.3 cm Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection, UK |
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| 1893 Orange Market, Jaffa oil on canvas 150 x 183 cm |
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| 1893 Phantom Ship Sails from The Graphic illustrated newspaper 27.9 x 39.4 cm |
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| 1893 Shade oil on canvas 61.7 x 75 cm Lamport Hall, Lamport, Northamptonshire, UK |
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| 1893 Ship on Fire! Women and Children First engraving in The Graphic illustrated newspaper 30.4 x 22.8 cm |
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| 1893 Signalling Happy New Year to a Sister Ship, 1893 oil grisaille on board 29.5 x 21.5 cm |
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| 1893 Whale Fishing from The Graphic illustrated newspaper 40 x 28 cm |
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| 1893-94c Fisherman Under a Canopy, North Africa oil on canvas 43 x 55 cm |
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| c1893-94 On the Quayside oil on board 45 x 60 cm |
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| 1894 The Last Toss from The Graphic illustrated newspaper 38.1 x 26.7 cm |
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| 1894 Heavy Weather in the Channel: Stowing the Mainsail oil on strawboard 75.5 x 55.5 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1894 Hope of Rescue oil on canvas |
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| 1895 A Blustery Day at Sea oil on board 57.2 x 38.1 cm |
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| 1895 A Mediterranean Port oil on canvas 31 x 51.5 cm |
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| 1895 Don Quixote of The Mancha published by Gibbings and Co., London |
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| 1895 Don Quixote of The Mancha published by Gibbings and Co., London "Don Quixote" |
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| 1895 Don Quixote of The Mancha published by Gibbings and Co., London "Happy time, and fortunate ages were those." |
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| 1895 Don Quixote of The Mancha published by Gibbings and Co., London "Placing himself in the midst of the way" |
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| 1895 Don Quixote of The Mancha published by Gibbings and Co., London "The taking a little meat would be very behooveful to me." |
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| 1895 Don Quixote of The Mancha published by Gibbings and Co., London "There came some twelve men in a company." |
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| 1895 Don Quixote of The Mancha published by Gibbings and Co., London "I heard a crier go about" oil on artist's board en grisaille 56 x 41 cm |
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| 1895 Music oil on canvas 188.5 x 143.5 cm William Morris Gallery, London |
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| 1895 The Olive Press oil on canvas 62 x 74.5 cm William Morris Gallery, London |
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| 1895 The Piping Boy oil on canvas 61.5 x 75.5 cm William Morris Gallery, London |
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| 1895 The Shrine at the Well oil on canvas 62 x 74.5 cm Wiiliam Morris Gallery, London |
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| 1896 A Beggar, Assisi oil on canvas 42 x 31 cm William Morris Gallery, London |
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| 1896 Arab Musicians oil on canvas 144.8 x 157.5 cm Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, UK |
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| 1896 Limehouse Reach (London) oil on board 51 x 76 cm |
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| 1896 Tales of our Coast published by Chatto and Windus "Black Taggart was in with his lugger." 12 illustrations and cover by Brangwyn |
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| 1896 Tales of our Coast published by Chatto and Windus "Your ship will come in" 12 illustrations and cover by Brangwyn |