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Frank Dicksee (1853-1928)

Aliases: Francis Bernard Dicksee; Frank Bernard Dicksee

Professions: Painter; Illustrator

  • Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee, P.R.A. (1853-1928)

  • Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee, P.R.A. (1853-1928)

  • SIR FRANCIS BERNARD DICKSEE, P.R.A. 1853-1928

  • Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee, P.R.A. (1853-1928)

Frank Dicksee Biography

(b London, 27 Nov 1853; d London, 17 Oct 1928). English painter and illustrator. He studied in the studio of his father, Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819–95), who painted portraits and historical genre scenes; he then entered the Royal Academy Schools, London, where he was granted a studentship in 1871. He won a silver medal for drawing from the Antique in 1872 and a gold medal in 1875 for his painting Elijah confronting Ahab and Jezebel in Naboth’s Vineyard (untraced), with which he made his début at the Royal Academy in 1876. He also began to work as an illustrator during the 1870s, contributing to Cassell’s Magazine , Cornhill Magazine , The Graphic and other periodicals. During the 1880s he was commissioned by Cassell & Co. to illustrate their editions of Longfellow’s Evangeline (1882), Shakespeare’s Othello (1890) and Romeo and Juliet (1884).

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