Frank Bramley

Frank Bramley RA ( born May 6, 1857 in Sibsey, Lincolnshire, † August 9, 1915 in Chalford Hill, Gloucestershire ) was a British painter of the late Impressionism and important representative of the Newlyn School, an artists colony in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Life and work

Frank Bramley studied from 1873 to 1878 at the Lincoln School of Art Subsequently he attended from 1879 to 1882 the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp and was informed as I Edwin Harris, Thomas Cooper Gotch and Norman Garstin of Charles Verlat. In 1882 he traveled to Venice and stayed there until 1884. Upon his return to England, he moved southwest English county of Cornwall to Newlyn and joined the Newlyn School of, a resident artists' colony, which had been founded in 1882 by Walter Langley. Bramley operation here rarely the preferred of the group of painters plein air painting, but preferred scenes in closed rooms under artificial light. From 1884 to 1912 Bramley could regularly show at the annual exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts his works. He also participated in the resistance against the conservative understanding of art at the Royal Academy of Arts, and founded in 1885 along with other artists such as Thomas Cooper Gotch, John Singer Sargent and Stanhope Forbes the New English Art Club. With Stanhope Forbes he formed a particularly close friendship. Bramley entertained in this time closer contact to James McNeill Whistler.

With the Picture A Hopeless Dawn Bramley succeeded 1888, the final breakthrough. In the work considered, the artist to combine emotional and narrative elements and to create through a combination of natural and artificial light sources, special lighting conditions, the more elevated the drama of the scene. The painting was bought by the Chantrey Foundation for the Tate Gallery. From the 90s of the 19th century was Bramleys brushstroke brighter, thicker and looser. As motifs were now increasingly individuals in addition to selected scenes of country life. In 1891, he married the artist in Newlyn Katherine Graham. 1894 Bramley was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy. 1895 Bramley and left his wife and moved to Newlyn Droitwich in the West Midlands. In 1900 they settled in Grasmere in the County of Westmorland, where the family lived his wife, Katherine. In 1911 he was elected a full member of the Royal Academy. Finally, the painter received the Gold Medal of the Paris Salon. Bramley died at the age of only 58 years.

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