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Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee (27 November 1853 – 17 October 1928) was an
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Victorian
painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
and
illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...
, best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes. He also was a noted painter of
portrait A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type ...
s of fashionable women, which helped to bring him success in his own time.


Life

Dicksee's father, Thomas Dicksee, was a painter who taught Frank as well as his sister
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from a young age. The family lived in Fitzroy Square, Bloomsbury. Dicksee enrolled in the
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in 1870 and achieved early success. He was elected to the Academy in 1891 and became its president in 1924. He was
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ed in 1925, and named to the
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by King
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in 1927. In 1921 Dicksee exhibited at the first exhibition of the
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in London. Dicksee painted ''The Funeral of a Viking'' (1893;
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), which was donated in 1928 by Arthur Burton in memory of his mother to the Corporation of Manchester. Victorian critics gave it both positive and negative reviews, for its perfection as a showpiece and for its dramatic and somewhat staged setting, respectively. The painting was used by Swedish Viking/Black metal band Bathory for the cover of their 1990 album, ''
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''. A book on Frank Dicksee's life and work with a full catalogue of his known paintings and drawings by Simon Toll was published by Antique Collector's Club in 2016.


Gallery

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La Belle Dame sans Merci "La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy") is a ballad produced by the England, English poet John Keats in 1819. The title was derived from the title of a 15th-century poem by Alain Chartier called ''La Belle Dame sans ...
'' File:DickseeRomeoandJuliet.jpg, ''Romeo and Juliet'', 1884 File:Frank Bernard Dicksee - Hesperia, 1887.jpg, ''Hesperia'', 1887 File:Frank Dicksee - Paolo and Francesca.jpg, '' Paolo and
Francesca Francesca is an Italian female given name, derived from the Latin male name ''Franciscus'' meaning 'the Frenchman' It is widely used in most Romance languages, including Italian language, Italian, French language, French and Catalan language, Cata ...
'', 1894 File:Frank Dicksee - Stella.jpg, ''Stella'', 1900 File:Lady Hillingdon, by Frank Dicksee.jpg, ''Lady Hillingdon'', 1905 File:Dicksee-Portrait of the Artist's Niece, Dorothy-1917.jpg, ''Portrait of the Artist's Niece, Dorothy'', 1917 File:Yseult by Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee.jpg, '' Yseult'', 1901


See also

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La Belle Dame sans Merci "La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy") is a ballad produced by the England, English poet John Keats in 1819. The title was derived from the title of a 15th-century poem by Alain Chartier called ''La Belle Dame sans ...
''


References


External links

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"Sir Frank Dicksee, British, 1853 – 1928" ''ArtMagick'' image gallery

Phryne's list of pictures in accessible collections in the UK

"Ophelia" ''Collections Database, Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium''
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