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c1904 Sir Frank Brangwyn
photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn
National Portrait Gallery, London |
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 3 of a 13-part series on the works of Sir Frank William Brangwyn. For earlier works see parts 1 & 2 also.![]() |
c1904-05 Blacksmiths study
chalk and watercolour on paper 35.5 x 47.5 cm |
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c1904-05 The Potters
oil on canvas 165.1 x 205.7 cm
Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire, UK |
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c1904 Men Sawing
oil on canvas 39.2 x 30.5 cm
William Morris Gallery, London |
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c1904 The Building of the South Kensington Museum
(Victoria & Albert Museum)
etching |
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1905 Barnard Castle
etching 38 x 30.3 cm (plate)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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1905 Fishmongers Wharf, London
etching and drypoint 18.6 x 11.7 cm (plate)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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1905 Study of Figure with Vessel, study for Venice Biennale
black and white chalk on grey paper 31 x 26.7 cm |
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1905 Study of Figure with Vessel, study for Venice Biennale
black chalk with highlights in white and touches of blue on paper 30.5 x 37 cm |
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1905 The Coal Mine
etching 19 x 15.2 cm |
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1905-06 The Rebuilding of Charing Cross Station
red and black chalk 33 x 54.6 cm |
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c1905 Figures & Boats on Estuary Shore (unfinished)
oil on canvas 33 x 37 cm |
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c1905 Queen Elizabeth Going Aboard the 'Golden Hind' at Deptford
oil on wood panel 41 x 61 cm
Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries, Sussex, UK |
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c1905 The Lord Mayor's Show in Olden Days
oil on canvas 52 x 62 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London |
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c1905 Tower Bridge, London
oil on canvas 64 x 77 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
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1906 A Venetian Funeral
oil on canvas 228.6 x 274.3 cm
Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire, UK |
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1906 A Venetian Scene
oil on canvas 72 x 98 cm
Buxton Museum & Art Gallery, UK |
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1906 Barques at Bruges
zinc etching 35.2 x 38 cm |
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1906 Breaking up the Caledonia
etching 54 x 80.1 cm (plate)
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
1906 Modern Commerce of the Port of Hull
From 1892, twenty-four scenes from London's history were painted on the first-floor walls by artists, including Sir Frederick Leighton, Stanhope Forbes, and Sir Frank Brangwyn. The murals run as a sequence.
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1906 Modern Commerce mural in the Royal Exchange, London
photograph reference
gelatin silver print 15.5 x 10.5 cm |
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1906 Modern Commerce mural
The Royal Exchange, London
see below |
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1906 Modern Commerce mural
The Royal Exchange, London |
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1906 Old Houses (Ghent)
aquatint and drypoint on paper 55.5 x 60.5 cm
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona |
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1906 Port de Gand
etching 39.4 x 35.6 cm (plate) |
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1906 Santa Maria Della Salute
oil on canvas 77.5 x 102 cm
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK |
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1906 Santa Maria Della Salute
oil on canvas 124.3 x 125 cm
Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ |
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1906 Skin Scrapers, No.1
etching and drypoint 19.5 x 13.3 cm (plate)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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1906 The Meat Market
etching 27.6 x 30.3 cm |
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1906 The Rialto, Venice
etching 38.7 x 33 cm |
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1906 The Tanpit
etching brown ink on ivory wove paper 50.5 x 60.4 cm (plate)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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1906 The Tow Rope
etching 54.2 x 8.6 cm (plate)
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
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c1906 Old Women, Bruges
etching 48.3 x 52.2 (plate) |
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c1906 repainted 1933 Santa Maria della Salute, Venice
oil on canvas 147.5 x 160 cm
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, UK |
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c1906 Santa Maria Della Salute, through Rigging
oil on board 74.9 x 100.3 cm
Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection |
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c1906 The Rialto, Venice
etching and drypoint 20.2 x 15.1 cm (plate)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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1907 Blacksmiths
zinc etching 55.5 x 80.5 cm |
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1907 Bridge, Barnard Castle
etching brown ink on cream wove paper 44.5 x 55.2 cm (plate)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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1907 Church of St. Austrebert, Montreuil
zinc etching on wove paper 50 x 60.6 cm |
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1907 Cornfield, Montreuil
etching and drypoint 22.3 x 35.4 cm |
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1907 Estaminet, Montreuil
etching and drypoint 13.2 x 16.2 cm (plate)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
1907 Loot
Loot was published, (as a three-colour lithograph measuring 36 x 54 cm) to illustrate the 1st issue of Neolith, November 1907 (as centrefold):
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1907 Loot
pencil, black and beige chalk over a lithographic proof base 43.5 x 54 cm |
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1907 Self Portrait with Miners
oil on canvas 124.5 x 127 cm
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK |
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1907 Susanna and the Elders
oil on canvas 147 x 160.5 cm
National Museum Cardiff, Wales, UK |
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1907 The Hay-Cart
etching and drypoint 24.7 x 30.4 cm |
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1907 The Market Square, Montreuil
copper etching 11.5 x 15 cm |
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1907 Unloading Wine, Venice
etching
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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c1907 A Landscape Study
oil on canvas 25.4 x 26.7 cm
Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire, UK |
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1907c Bacchanal
oil on canvas 102.8 x 76.3 cm
National Museum Wales, Cardiff, UK |
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1907c Boat Builders, Venice
etching 51.4 x 66.3 cm |
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1907c Entrance to Montreuil
etching 37 x 42 cm |
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c1907 Windmill, Bruges
etching and drypoint 49.3 x 52.9 cm (plate) |
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1908 Fishermen at Sea in a Squall
oil
Groeninge Museum, Bruges, Belgium |
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1908 Gateway, Furness
etching 17.1 x 22.2 cm |
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1908 Inn of the Parrot
etching 55.2 x 37.8 cm |
1906 - 1920 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
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| 1910 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
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c1910 (1920 edition) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
published by Fouilis, London
15 colour plates |
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c1910 (1920 edition) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
published by Fouilis, London
15 colour plates |
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c1910 (1920 edition) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
published by Fouilis, London
15 colour plates |
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c1910 (1920 edition) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
published by Fouilis, London
15 colour plates |
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c1910 (1920 edition) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
published by Fouilis, London
15 colour plates |
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c1910 (1920 edition) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
published by Fouilis, London
15 colour plates |
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c1910 (1920 edition) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
published by Fouilis, London
15 colour plates |
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c1910 (1920 edition) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
published by Fouilis, London
15 colour plates |
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1920 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
published by Fouilis, London
oil on panel 38.1 x 61 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
