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FRANK DICKSEE

1853-1928

Simon Toll graduated in 1997 from Warwick University where he studied Art History. His book Herbert Draper 1863-1920 A Life Study was published by the ACC in 2003. He is now Head of Victorian Pictures and Director at Sotheby’s in London, where he has worked for the last 14 years.

His Art and Life

Other books on related subjects published by ACC Art Books include:

WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU HIS LIFE AND WORKS Damien Bartoli with Frederick C. Ross

SIMON TOLL

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FRANK DICKSEE 1853-1928 His Art and Life SIMON TOLL

Frank Dicksee was born at a time when the first wave of Pre-Raphaelitism was beginning to make its presence felt in Britain and he inherited the romantic spirit of the movement that had been founded only a stone’s throw from his childhood home. After early success with Harmony, his painting of unrequited love, he rose to be one of the most popular artists of the late 19th-century, painting in a sumptuous and dramatic style. Dicksee’s family was a veritable dynasty of artists but it is Frank who is best known and loved today for his Pre-Raphaelite-inspired subjects. He enrolled in the Royal Academy in 1870 and quickly achieved success; he was elected to the Academy in 1891 and became President of the Royal Academy in 1924. During 15 years of research, the author has located most of Dicksee’s paintings and has written a full history of his life and works. He includes a catalogue raisonnée and illustrates almost 300 pictures, many of which are previously unpublished.


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