Frank Dicksee

Sir Frank Dicksee
Frank Bernard Dicksee
Born	(1853-11-27)27 November 1853 London, England, UK
Died	17 October 1928(1928-10-17) (aged 74) London, England, UK

Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee KCVO PRA (London 27 November 1853 – 17 October 1928) was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes. He also was a noted painter of portraits of fashionable women, which helped to bring him success in his own time.

Life

The Two Crowns, 1900

Dicksee's father, Thomas Dicksee, was a painter who taught Frank as well as his sister Margaret from a young age. Dicksee enrolled in the Royal Academy in 1870 and achieved early success. He was elected to the Academy in 1891 and became its President in 1924. He was knighted in 1925, and named to the Royal Victorian Order by King George V in 1927.

Dicksee painted The Funeral of a Viking (1893; Manchester Art Gallery), 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, Hammerheart.

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 January 2017.

Gallery

• Frank Dicksee's works
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  Chivalry, 1885
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  Lady Palmer
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  An Offering
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  The Funeral of a Viking, 1893
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  La Belle Dame sans Mersi

Works

• La Belle Dame Sans Merci (Bristol Museum and Art Gallery)
• Romeo and Juliet (1884)
• Chivalry (1885; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney)

External links

• Works by Frank Dicksee at the Art Renewal Center
• "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