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British, 1867-1956
"To Your Health": Revelers Around a Banquet Table
(Detail)
Colored chalks, heightened with white, on gray paper
12.0 x 21.0 ins (30.5 x 53.3 cms)
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Provenance: The Fine Art Society Ltd., London, until June 10, 1966; when sold to Mrs. Carl Popp of Sikeston, Missouri Museums and Collections: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Rockefeller Centre, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Boston Museum of Fine Arts; The Galeria degli Uffizi, Florence; The Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; The Arentshuis (The Brangwyn Museum) Bruges; The Albertina, Vienna; The Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, England; The British Museum, London; The Victoria and Albert, Museum; London; The Tate Britain, London; The Ashmolean, Oxford; The Musée du Luxembourg, Paris; The Musee D'Orsay, Paris; The Berlin Kupferstichkabinett; The Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona; The Stockholm Nationalmuseum; The National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff; countless other public and private collections throughout the world |
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Sir
Frank Brangwyn was born
in Bruges to Welsh parents and was brought up and educated in
England. His art training was at the Royal College of Art. He was
apprenticed to William Morris in 1882. It was Morris’s influence that
caused him to diversify his art. He was famous as an accomplished etcher
and lithographer and his favourite subjects included powerful depictions
of ship building and heavy industry, and the labourers involved in such
work. However, his efforts in the fields of design are less well known. He
produced designs for furniture, jewellery, and textiles, and he made some
large scale stained glass panels for Tiffany’s. Brangwyn fulfilled many
commissions to produce large scale murals for public interior spaces, the
most high profile of which was for the House of Commons in London for
which he completed 18 large scale panels on the theme of the British
Empire which was rejected by the commissioning commitee but became the
subject of fierce bidding by many other institutions. To add to his
achievements, Brangwyn was also an official war artist during the 1st
World War. He was elected to a great number of societies: The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours (1917), Royal Society of Miniature Painters (Honorary member 1918), Royal Scottish Academy (Honorary member 1918), Royal Academy (1919), Society of Graphic Artists (President 1921) and the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours (ARWS 1921). He went on to become the first artist to be honored with a retrospective at the Royal Academy during his lifetime, in 1952, and he is well represented abroad in countless public collections. There is a museum dedicated to his work in Bruges. In England, there is also a large collection held at the William Morris Museum in Walthamstow. |
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