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Description: | Frank Brangwyn was born in Bruges, Belgium, the son of an English father and Welsh mother. The family returned to London in 1874, Brangwyn's father gaining work as a designer of buildings, embroideries and furniture. Although Brangwyn appears to have had little formal education, either academic or artistic, his earliest mentors were three of the most influential men in design at the turn of the century: Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo, William Morris and Siegfried Bing. Between 1884 and 1887 Brangwyn travelled to Kent, Cornwall and Devon, before venturing further afield, with trips to Turkey in 1888, South Africa in 1891, Spain in 1892 and Morocco in 1893.Brangwyn was an independent artist, an experimenter and innovator, capable of working on both large and small scale projects, ranging from murals, oil paintings, watercolours, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs to designs for architecture, interiors, stained glass, furniture, carpets, ceramics and jewellery as well as book illustrations, bookplates and commercial posters. It is estimated that he produced over 12,000 works during his lifetime. When he died, he left large proportions of his works to museums and galleries in industrial towns such as Liverpool and Wolverhampton.
A watercolour landscape showing a cluster of buildings surrounded by trees. There is a steep slope in the foreground. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Watercolour painting Fine arts Landscape Works on paper Rural areas | Temporal: | 1890 - 1956
20th century (1900-1999) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | BRANGWYN; Frank (1867 - 1956); Sir; RA, RWS, PRBA | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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