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Frank Southgate RBA | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 August 1872 |
| Died | 1916 France |
| Nationality | British |
Frank Southgate, RBA (1872–1916) was a British painter. He spent most of his life in Norfolk and concentrated on painting birds, especially waterfowl, and hunting scenes.
Biography[edit]
Ernest Frank Southgate was born 1 August 1872 in Hunstanton, Norfolk.[1]
He was a student at Bideford Art School and Cambridge School of Art.
He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists.
Southgate painted mainly birds and sporting scenes.[2] His paintings of ducks and other birds in Patterson 1904 (for instance "The Stricken Mallard") were internationally renowned.[3] In 2013 he was marked as one of the "excellent bird painters, who both illustrated books and painted pictures for the private collector", together with Winifred Austen, George Edward Lodge and Allen W. Seaby.[4]
Southgate died in 1916, whilst serving in the Army during the First World War in France, aged 44 years. He received a short 'Im Memoriam' (in Dutch) by A.B. Wigman in De Levende Natuur (vol. 21, 1916).[3]
Some of his paintings are part of collections of local Norfolk museums, like the Lynn Museum in King's Lynn (two portraits) and the Norwich Castle museum ("Marsh harrier and wounded teal").[5]
Book illustrations[edit]
Southgate illustrated several books, like for instance:
- Patterson, Arthur Henry (1904). Notes of an East Coast Naturalist: a series of observations made at odd times during a period of twenty-five years in the neighborhood of Great Yarmouth. London: Methuen & Co. OCLC 15720987. with twelve colour illustrations by himself.[6]
- Patterson, Arthur Henry (1905). Nature in Eastern Norfolk ... With twelve illustrations in colour by F. Southgate. London: Methuen. OCLC 776237584.
- Vincent, James Edmund (1907). Through East Anglia in a Motor-Car. London: Methuen. OCLC 522053.
- Fletcher, J.S. (1908). A Book about Yorkshire ... With sixteen illustrations in colour by Wal Paget and Frank Southgate, R.B.A., and sixteen other illustrations. London: Methuen. OCLC 561056202.
- Pollard, Hugh Bertie Campbell (1928). Wildfowl & waders: Nature & sport in the coastlands, depicted by the late Frank Southgate, R.B.A., and described by Hugh B.C. Pollard. London: Country Life. OCLC 3458758.
- Dutt, William A. (1929). Norfolk (7th rev. ed.). London: Methuen. OCLC 977706846.
References[edit]
- ^ "Southgate, Frank (1872–1916)". Artist Biographies. Retrieved 2020-03-11.. Frank Southgate was born Ernest Frank Southgate. An oil painting of 1893, signed E Southgate, bears the inscription "Woods near Hunstanton Norfolk by E.F. Southgate Sept 1893". See: "Frank Southgate (1872–1916)". Arcadja. Retrieved 2020-03-11. One source says he is born in Suffolk ("Frank Southgate (1872–1916): "In the shadow of the hedgerow"". Fletcher Gate Gallery. 2016-04-16. Retrieved 2020-03-11).
- ^ Southgate is said to have "specialised in painting watercolours of birds" and to be "well known for his ability to capture their movement in flight. This was achieved by spending large amounts of time bird watching (...)". See: "Frank Southgate: Two Springer Spaniels". Medici Gallery. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- ^ a b Wigman, A.B. (1916). "Frank Southgate †" (in Dutch). De Levende Natuur, vol. 21.
- ^ Campbell, Bruce; Lack, Elizabeth (2013). A Dictionary of Birds. London: Poyser. p. 301. ISBN 978 1 4081 3840 3. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
- ^ "Frank Southgate 1872-1916". Art UK. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
- ^ The colour illustrations at
Wikimedia Commons.
External link[edit]
- Frank Southgate at Artnet (anno 2020-03-12: an overview of 149 works, sold in auctions between 1988 and 2019).
Category:19th-century British painters
Category:20th-century British painters