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Frank Bramley RA (6 May 1857 – 9 August 1915) was an English post-impressionist

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painter of the

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Personal life

Bramley was born in

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, near Boston, in

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to Charles Bramley from Fiskerton also in Lincolnshire.Victor Plarr.
Men and women of the time: a dictionary of contemporaries
'. G. Routledge; 1899. p. 124. From 1873 to 1878 Bramley studied at the

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. He then studied from 1879 to 1882 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where Charles Verlat was his instructor. He lived in

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from 1882 to 1884 and then moved to

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.''Frank Bramley''.
Penlee House. Retrieved 6 October 2012. Bramley married fellow artist Katherine Graham, daughter of John Graham from Huntingstile, Grasmere, Westmoreland, in 1891. The couple lived at Orchard Cottage, which at the time was called Belle Vue Cottage, from 1893 to 1897. In 1895 they moved to

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in the West Midlands.Caroline Fox; Francis Greenacre; Newlyn Orion Galleries.
Artists of the Newlyn School, 1880-1900
'. Newlyn Orion Galleries; 1979. p. 166. They lived at Bellue Vue House in 1889 and by 1900 had settled at Grasmere in the Lake District. Bramley died in Chalford Hill,

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in August 1915.

Career

Having returned to England from Venice in or after 1884, Bramley established himself in the

artist colony on Rue des Beaux Arts in Newlyn. Along with Walter Langley and Stanhope Forbes, he was considered to be one of the "leading figures" of the Newlyn School.''Frank Bramley.''
Cornwall Artists. 6 October 2012. In contrast to other members of the Newlyn school, Bramley specialised in interiors and worked on combining natural and artificial light in his paintings, such as ''A Hopeless Dawn.''

During his time in Newlyn, Bramley was a particular exponent of the ‘square brush technique’, using the flat of a square brush to lay the paint on the canvas in a jigsaw pattern of brush strokes, giving a particular vibrancy to the paint surface. In the early 1890s, his palette became brighter and his handling of the paint looser and more impastoed, while his subject matter narrowed to portraits and rural genre paintings.

An example of Bramley's use of the square brush technique is his painting ''Domino!'' His ''A Hopeless Dawn'' (1888) is held by the Tate Gallery, London after having been purchased for the nation by the

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and is one of Bramley's most favored works. Praised by the Royal Academy, Penlee House also appreciate this Bramley work: "The painting’s strong emotional and narrative content, together with its aesthetic appeal and tonal harmony, make this one of the most admired Newlyn School works to this day." The young grieving woman in the painting, artist model Effy Reynolds James. The painting was referenced in an April 2010 General Conference address by President of

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. Bramley was one of the founders of the

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, but left the organization after having received condemning comments from

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. In 1894 Bramley became an

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(ARA) and in 1911 he became a

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(RA). He was also a gold medal winner at the Paris Salon.

Exhibitions

* 1884 - 1912: Royal Academy * 1890: ''Domino'', Dowdeswell Exhibition

Works

Selected paintings include: * ''A Venetian Market Girl,'' 1883. * ''Primrose Day,'' 1885. * ''Everyone His Own Tale,'' 1885. * ''Domino,'' 1886. * ''Eyes and No Eyes,'' 1887. * ''A Hopeless Dawn,'' 1888. * ''Saved,'' 1889. * ''For of Such is the Kingdom of Heaven'', 1891. * ''Old Memories,'' 1892. * ''After Fifty Years,'' 1893. * ''Sleep, A Portrait of Mrs. Bolitho,'' 1895. * ''After the Storm,'' 1896. * ''Friends'', 1907.''Friends''.
Christies.

Gallery

File:Frank Bramley, by Frank Bramley.jpg, ''Self portrait'', 1897, oil on canvas File:Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Bt by Frank Bramley.jpg, Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet, National Portrait Gallery, London File:Frank Bramley - Every One His Own Tale 1885.jpg, ''Everyone Has His Own Tale'', 1885, oil on canvas File:Frank Bramley - Domino! 1886.jpg, ''Domino!'', 1886, oil on canvas File:Frank Bramley - Eyes And No Eyes 1887.jpg, ''Eyes and No Eyes'', 1887, etching File:Frank Bramley - Delicious Solitude 1909.jpg, ''Delicious Solitude'', 1909, oil on canvas File:Frank Bramley - Borgerhout Anvers.jpg, ''Borgerhout Anvers'', oil on canvas File:Frank Bramley - Flower Study.jpg, ''Flower Study'', oil on canvas File:Frank Bramley - Friends.jpg, ''Friends - The Artist's Wife Katherine And Her Dog'', oil on canvas File:Frank Bramley - Helen Chalmers 1908.jpg, Helen Chalmers, 1908

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(ArtCyclopedia)
Frank Bramley - short biography
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