Frank Bramley
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Post-Impressionism
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genre painter of the Newlyn School
Newlyn School
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Life and work
Bramley was born in SibseySibsey
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in Lincolnshire
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and studied at the Lincoln School of Art from 1873 to 1878, later under Charles Verlat at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp from 1879 to 1882. After staying in Venice
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from 1882 to 1884, he moved to the Newlyn School
Newlyn School
The Newlyn School is a term used to describe an art colony of artists based in or near to Newlyn, a fishing village adjacent to Penzance, Cornwall, from the 1880s until the early 20th century. The establishment of the Newlyn School was reminiscent of the Barbizon School in France, where artists...
artist colony in Cornwall
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In contrast to other members of the Newlyn school, Bramley specialised in interiors and worked on combining natural and artificial light in his paintings. His A Hopeless Dawn (1888) was bought by the Tate gallery
Tate Gallery
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, and is probably one of the most widely admired of Bramley's, and the school's, works. He became a Royal Academician
Royal Academy
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(RA) in 1911, and was also a gold medal winner at the Paris Salon
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Bramley married fellow artist Katherine Graham in 1891. In 1895 they moved to Droitwich in the West Midlands, and by 1900 had settled at Grasmere
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in the Lake District
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Bramley died in Chalford Hill, Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
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in August 1915.
Selected paintings
- A Venetian market girl (1883)
- Primrose day (1885)
- Everyone his own tale (1885)
- A hopeless dawn (1888)
- For such is the kingdom of heaven (1891)
- Friends (1907)
External links
- Frank Bramley online (ArtCyclopedia)
- Frank Bramley - short biography (Artfact)