Thomas Francis Dicksee
Thomas Francis Dicksee | |
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![]() Thomas Francis Dicksee, self-portrait, date unknown | |
Born | 13 December 1819 |
Died | 6 November 1895 London, England |
Nationality | English |
Education | H. P. Briggs. |
Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819–1895) was an English painter born in Condom. He was a portraitist and painter of historical, genre subjects often inspired by the works of Shakespeare.
Life and career[]
Thomas Francis Dicksee was born in London on 13 December 1819 and was the pupil of H. P. Briggs. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1841 until the year of his death. His brother was also a painter, and his children, Sir Francis Dicksee and Margaret likewise became painters. In The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, Herbert Dicksee is given as his son also, but according to the City of London School, where Herbert taught, he was the son of John Robert Dicksee.
Thomas Dicksee also produced a series of portraits of family members, and also painted idealised portraits, including the Shakespearean characters Ophelia, Beatrice, Miranda and Ariel. A Juliet is in the Sunderland Art Gallery, and At the Opera is in the collection of . A portrait of is in the Adelaide Art Gallery, Australia[citation needed] and an Ophelia (1875) is in the Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts.[1] Dicksee would become particularly well known for his depictions of Shakespearean heroines and exhibited a total of seven at the Royal Academy.[2] Other oil paintings have been seen in several auctions including ,[3] ,[4] and paintings of Beatrice,[5] Miranda,[6] and Amy Robsart.[7] He died in London on 6 November 1895.
Gallery[]
Ophelia, 1873, Touchstones Rochdale, England
Juliet, 1877, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Sunderland, England
Little Florist, Gallery Oldham, Greater Manchester, England
Miranda,1895, auction sold at Sotheby's
Ophelia,1864, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
Anne Page, 1862, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Ideal Portrait of Lady Macbeth, 1870, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
Christ of the Cornfield, 1883
Beatrice, 1883
References[]
- ^ Ophelia (1875, oil on canvas - "Five College Museums")
- ^ Ross Anderson, ''A Brush with Shakespeare, The Bard in Painting, 1780–1910'', exh. cat., Montgomery, Alabama, 1986, p. 51
- ^ http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/thomas-francis-dicksee-christ-of-the-cornfield-5631474-details.aspx
- ^ http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/thomas-francis-dicksee-distant-thoughts-4974142-details.aspx
- ^ http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/thomas-francis-dicksee-beatrice-5732497-details.aspx
- ^ http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/old-master-19th-century-european-art-n08826/lot.622.html
- ^ http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/thomas-francis-dicksee-amy-robsart-5697081-details.aspx
- Christopher Wood, Christopher Newall, Margaret Richardson. Victorian Painters: The Text (Antique Collectors' Club Ltd, 1995)
External links[]
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- T F Dicksee - biography and works (ArtMagick)
- 1819 births
- 1895 deaths
- 19th-century English painters
- English male painters
- British genre painters
- Orientalist painters