Frank Brangwyn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Frank Brangwyn

Anglo-Welsh artist and designer

Date of Birth: 12-May-1867

Place of Birth: Bruges, Flemish Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 11-Jun-1956

Profession: photographer, illustrator, painter, designer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Frank Brangwyn

  • Sir Frank William Brangwyn (12 May 1867 – 11 June 1956) was an Anglo-Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, printmaker, illustrator, and 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.

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