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 4 of a 13-part series on the works of Sir Frank William Brangwyn. For earlier works see parts 1 - 3 also.
1908-09 Canadian Grand Trunk Railway Offices, Cockspur Street, London
Brangwyn’s frieze for the ticket hall of the Canadian Grand Trunk Railway office in London, England, completed in 1908-09, can now be seen in the Ottawa Conference Centre.
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| 1909 Frieze for The Canadian Grand Trunk Railway Offices, London |
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| 1909 Frieze for The Canadian Grand Trunk Railway Offices, London |
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| 1909 Study for the Frieze for the Offices of The Canadian Pacific Grand Trunk Railway Offices pencil, red and white chalk and colour on paper 51.5 x 32.5 cm |
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| 1909 Study for the Frieze for the Offices of The Canadian Pacific Grand Trunk Railway watercolour, gouache and charcoal 20 x 74 cm |
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| 1909 Study for the Frieze for the Offices of The Canadian Pacific Grand Trunk Railway watercolour, gouache and charcoal 20 x 74 cm |
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| 1909 Study for the Frieze for the Offices of The Canadian Pacific Grand Trunk Railway watercolour, gouache and charcoal 20 x 74 cm |
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| 1909 Study of a Blacksmith, for The Canadian Grand Trunk Railway Offices, London red and black chalk on buff paper 53 x 33 cm |
c1908-16 St Aidan's Church, Leeds mosaic:
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| c1908-16 St Aidan's Church, Leeds mosaic |
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| c1908-16 St Aidan's Church, Leeds mosaic |
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| c1908-16 St Aidan's Church, Leeds mosaic |
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| c1908-16 St Aidan's Church, Leeds mosaic |
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| c1908-16 St Aidan's Church, Leeds mosaic |
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| c1908-16 St Aidan's Church, Leeds mosaic |
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| c1908-16 St Aidan's Church, Leeds mosaic |
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| c1908-16 St Aidan's Church, Leeds mosaic |
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| c1908-16 Study for Mural at St Aidan's, Leeds red and blue chalk on paper |
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| c1908-16 Study for Mural at St Aidan's, Leeds red chalk on paper |
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| c1908-16 Study for Mural at St Aidan's, Leeds red chalk on paper |
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c1908-16 Study for Mural at St Aidan's, Leeds pencil, black and white chalk on brown paper 56.5 x 29 cm |
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| 1908 Messina, Ruins After the Earthquake pencil, crayon, watercolour, gouache, and charcoal on paper 84 x 106.4 cm ( framed ) National Museum Wales, Cardiff |
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| 1908 Old Hammersmith etching and drypoint and plate-tone printed in black and brown ink 55.4 x 70.7 cm (plate) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
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| 1908 Old Houses on the Tiber etching and drypoint brown ink on laid paper 17 x 23.3 cm (plate) |
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| 1908 Old Houses, Dixmuden etching and drypoint Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| 1908 Picking Lemons oil on board 31.4 x 40.2 cm William Morris Gallery, London |
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| 1908 Santa Maria Della Salute, Venice (Through the Rigging) etching 53 x 80.5 cm |
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| 1908 Santa Maria Della Salute, Venice etching and plate-tone 27.7 x 36.8 cm (plate) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
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| 1908 St. Nicholas Church in Diksmuide etching and aquatint 54.3 x 65 cm |
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| 1908 Susanna and the Elders oil on canvas 119.5 x 162.5 cm |
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| 1908 The Black Mill, Winchelsea etching brown ink in cream wove paper 57.6 x 68 cm (plate) Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1908 The Fruits of the Sea lithograph on ivory wove paper 24 x 18.5 cm (plate) Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1908 The Mill, Furnes etching with surface tone 30.2 x 37.8 cm (plate) Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ |
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| 1908 The Rajah's Birthday oil on canvas 115.5 x 154.9 cm Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, Yorkshire, UK |
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| 1908 The Water Carrier etching 17.8 x 22.9 cm |
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| 1908 Windmill, Dixmuden etching 55 x 74 cm |
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| 1908-14 Lloyd's Register of Shipping Ten designs for the Committee Luncheon Room lithograph 24 x 29 cm |
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| 1908-14 Lloyd's Register of Shipping Ten designs for the Committee Luncheon Room 21 x 25.3 cm |
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| 1908-14 Lloyd's Register of Shipping Working Men study pencil, red and white chalk on paper 42 x 49.5 cm |
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| c1908 The Last Fight of the Revenge oil on canvas 48 x 62 cm |
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| 1909 Notre Dame Cathedral etching 15.2 x 19.7 cm |
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| 1909 Street Musicians etching 15.2 x 12.7 cm |
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| 1910 A Door, Cahors etching printed in sepia ink 15.9 x 22.9 cm |
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| 1910 A Gate of Naples etching, drypoint and plate-tone printed in brown ink 52.9 x 45.4 cm (plate) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
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| 1910 Blast Furnace lithograph 25 x 21 cm (plate) |
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| 1910 Frank Brangwyn and His Work by Walter Shaw-Sparrow published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 20 colour and 16 collotypes |
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| 1910 Frank Brangwyn and His Work by Walter Shaw-Sparrow published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 20 colour and 16 collotypes |
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| 1910 Frank Brangwyn and His Work by Walter Shaw-Sparrow published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 20 colour and 16 collotypes |
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| 1910 Market, North Africa watercolour 21.6 x 15.9 cm |
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| 1910 Old Houses, St. Cirq, France etching and drypoint 36.9 x 28 cm (plate) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| 1910 The Card Players oil on canvas 140.5 x 177.6 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
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| 1910 The Swing etching with surface tone 12.6 x 20.2 cm (plate) Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ |
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| 1910 Via del Trombe, Messina etching 54 x 59.5 cm |
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| 1910-15 Shipbuilding oil on canvas 92.1 x 202.6 cm Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection, Scotland, UK |
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| c1910 A Dockyard on the Thames etching |
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| c1910 Departure of the Bucintoro oil on canvas 132.1 x 175.3 cm |
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| c1910 Labourer black and white chalk |
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| c1910 Man leaning on a Post black, brown and red chalk 46.3 x 37.5 cm |
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| c1910 Old Houses, Taormina, Sicily oil on canvas 36.2 x 49 cm William Morris Gallery, London |
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| c1910 The Mosque oil on canvas 61.2 x 61 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff, UK |
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| c1910 The Shipbuilders oil on canvas 92.1 x 203.5 cm Lady Lever Art Gallery, Wirral, UK |
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| c1910 Unloading Oranges at London Bridge lithograph 58 x 84.7 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
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| 1911 A Mosque, Constantinople etching on wove paper 58 x 73 cm (plate) |
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| 1911 Breaking up the "Duncan" etching 54 x 81.5 cm |
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| 1911 Frank Brangwyn and his work by Walter Shaw-Sparrow published by Dana Estes & Company, Boston, MA "A River Procession to Westminster in the 1453: City and Trade Barges" |