Frank Dicksee

Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee KCVO ( born November 27, 1853 in London, † October 17, 1928 there ), was an English painter and illustrator of the Victorian era.

Life

His father Thomas Dicksee was also a painter, Francis, and his brother Herbert and his sister has taught at a young age. In 1870 he enrolled in the Royal Academy and gained great fame early. In the Academy he was elected in 1891 and 1927, entrusted with the Office of the President. In 1925 he was knighted and appointed by King George V as a member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1927.

In 1893 the work of The Funeral of a Viking, which is preserved in the Manchester Art Gallery, after it was introduced in 1928 by Arthur Burton in memory of his mother was born there. Victorian art critics judged the work of both positive and negative, for its perfection as a model plant or for its dramatic staging. The Swedish Viking / Black Metal band Bathory used the work as a cover picture for her 1990 released album Hammerheart.

Works

• Ophelia ( Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts)
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci (Bristol Museum and Art Gallery )
• Romeo and Juliet (1884 )