Original works of art
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Frank Bramley RA |
(English, 1857 -1915 ) |
Frank Bramley, RA was an English post-impressionist genre painter of the Newlyn School. From 1873 to 1878 Bramley studied at the Lincoln School of Art. He then studied from 1879 to 1882 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, where Charles Verlat was his instructor. He lived in Venice from 1882 to 1884 and then moved to Newlyn, Cornwall.
During his time in Newlyn, Bramley was a particular exponent of the square brush technique, using the flat of a square brush to lay the paint on the canvas in a jigsaw pattern of brush strokes, giving a particular vibrancy to the paint surface. In the early 1890s, his palette became brighter and his handling of the paint looser and more impastoed, while his subject matter narrowed to portraits and rural genre paintings. An example of Bramley's use of the square brush technique is his painting Domino!
His A Hopeless Dawn (1888) is held by the Tate Gallery, London after having been purchased for the nation by the Chantrey Bequest and is one of Bramley's most favored works. Praised by the Royal Academy, Penlee House also appreciate this Bramley work: "The paintings strong emotional and narrative content, together with its aesthetic appeal and tonal harmony, make this one of the most admired Newlyn School works to this day." The young grieving woman in the painting, artist model Effy Reynolds James. The painting was referenced in an April 2010 General Conference address by President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thomas S. Monson.
Bramley was one of the founders of the New English Art Club, but left the organization after having received condemning comments from Walter Sickert.
In 1894 Bramley became an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) and in 1911 he became a Royal Academician (RA). He was also a gold medal winner at the Paris Salon. |
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