Sir Frank BRANGWYN (1867-1956)

QUEEN ELIZABETH GOING ABOARD THE 'GOLDEN HIND' AT DEPTFORD, c.1905
Initialled: FB, red paint, lower left
Oil on board, 41 x 61 cm
000336

Exhibited
Brighton Art Gallery, 1908.
Brighton Polytechnic; London, Fine Art Society; Sheffield, Graves Gallery, The Art of Frank Brangwyn, 1980, no. 42.

Literature
Walter Shaw-Sparrow,Frank Brangwyn and His Work (Page & Co, 1925) pp.135-6.
The Last Flight of the Revenge, p.105 as 'A Captured Galleon'  (Gibbings & Co 1910).
V. Galloway,The Oil and Mural Paintings of Sir Frank Brangwyn RA (F. Lewis, 1962) p.49, no.488.

Provenance
Colonel Goff
Presented by Mrs Goff, 1922.

This is a finished study for the painting in the Dining Room at the Lloyd's Register of Shipping.  Between 1903 and 1907 Brangwyn painted eleven large decorative panels for the Register.

 

ANCONA, c.1937
Initialled: FB, brown paint, lower right
Oil on canvas, 1270 x 1270 cm
000316

Exhibited
Brighton Art Gallery,Autumn Exhibition, 1937, no. 48.
London, Royal Academy,Sir Frank Brangwyn RA, 1952-53, no. 404.
Brighton Polytechnic; London, Fine Art Society; Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery,The Art of Frank Brangwyn, 1980, no. 41.

Literature
V. Galloway,The Oil and Mural Paintings of Sir Frank Brangwyn RA (F. Lewis 1962) p.18, no.20.

Provenance
Purchased, 1937.

There is a variant at Wolverhampton.

CONSTRUCTION, c.1919
Watercolour and conté, 45.2 x 34 cm
103751

This drawing records the building of the Victoria and Albert Museum.  Brangwyn also produced an etching of the same subject Scaffolding No.1, 1919.

 

PARIS, c.1919
Signed: Paris, pencil, lower left, and Frank Brangwyn, pencil, lower right
Watercolour, 12.2 x 16.6 cm
100332

Provenance
Bequeathed by Mrs Ada Tomlin, 1959.

Brangwyn used this composition as the basis of an etching Ponte Neuf, Paris, No.2, 1919.

LANDSCAPE WITH HOVEL, c.1920
Signed: F. Brangwyn, pencil, lower right
Watercolour, 18 x 20 cm
100119

Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist, 1957.