Frank Brangwyn

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 9 of a 13-part series on the works of Sir Frank William Brangwyn.
For earlier works see parts 1 - 8 also.

c1924 Trawlers
hand-coloured lithograph 59 x 52.9 cm
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

1925 A Romantic Landscape
etching 15.2 x 23.5 cm

before 1925 The Prodigal Son
oil on canvas 34.3 x 43.2 cm
Leeds Art Gallery, UK

c1925 An Italian Town
inlaid intarsia panel 96.5 x 78.7 cm
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT

1925c From my Window at Ditchling
oil on board 66 x 73.6 cm
Jerwood Collection, London

c1925 Leeds University Building Fund
lithograph with hand-colouring 75.5 x 51.5 cm
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

c1925 Notre Dame de Paris
oil on hardboard 62 x 74.5 cm
Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ

c1925 The Storm
etching 24 x 47 cm

1926 An Alpine Bridge
etching 29.8 x 42.5 cm (plate)

before 1926 Lookout - Zambrene Trench Coats
lithograph 38.1 x 24.2 cm

1926 Old Bridge, Pavia
drypoint 35 x 56 cm

1926-27 Exhibition of Flemish and Belgian Art
1350-1900
lithograph 39 x 28 cm
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

1926-28 A Tank in Action
oil on canvas 365.8 x 375.9 cm
National Museum Wales, Cardiff

before 1927 Interior of St Hilier, Poitiers
lithograph 37 x 47 cm

1928 Interior of St. Hilaire, Poitiers
reproduction of a watercolour 29.8 x 24.2 cm

before 1927 Blast Furnace, Hammersmith
watercolour 32 x 43.4 cm

1927 Pont Neuf, Paris
watercolour

1927 Sketch for St. John
lithograph 19.5 x 24 cm

before 1928 Old Time Music
oil on board 48 x 61 cm

1928 Ditchling Windmill
watercolour 29.8 x 24.2 cm

before 1930 The Golden Horn, Constantinople
oil on canvas 63.5 x 76.2 cm

1925-38 Barbizon House
D. Croal Thomson and Lockett Thomson gallery, London

1925 Barbizon House cover
D. Croal Thomson and Lockett Thomson, London

1926 Barbizon House cover
D. Croal Thomson and Lockett Thomson, London

1927 Barbizon House cover
D. Croal Thomson and Lockett Thomson, London

1928 Barbizon House cover
D. Croal Thomson and Lockett Thomson, London

1929 Barbizon House cover
D. Croal Thomson and Lockett Thomson, London

1933 Barbizon House cover
D. Croal Thomson and Lockett Thomson, London

1926 The Bridge
published by John Lane & Dodd, Mead and Co.
24 colour plates and 22 monotone

1926 The Bridge

1926 Ascoli Piceno

1926 Assisi

1926 Mostar

The Old Bridge at Mostar stood for 427 years, until it was destroyed on 9 November 1993 by Croat paramilitary forces during the Croat-Bosnian War. Subsequently, a project was set in motion to reconstruct it; the rebuilt bridge opened on 23 July 2004: