Frank Southgate
Edward Frank Southgate RBA (1 August 1872 – 23 February 1916) was a British painter. He spent most of his life in Norfolk and concentrated on painting birds, especially waterfowl, and hunting scenes.
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- Name
- Frank Southgate
- Birth Name
- Edward Frank Southgate
- Born
- 1 August 1872
- Birthplace
- Hunstanton, England
- Died
- 23 February 1916
- Place of death
- France
- Full name
- Edward Frank Southgate.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Occupation
- painter and illustrator.
- Education
- Bideford Art School.
- Known for
- Notes of an East Coast Naturalist.
- Languages
- English.
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Edward Frank Southgate RBA (1 August 1872 – 23 February 1916) was a British painter. He spent most of his life in Norfolk and concentrated on painting birds, especially waterfowl, and hunting scenes.
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Frank Southgate (1872–1916) was a British illustrator and painter. Born Edward Frank Southgate in Hunstanton, the illustrator died in France. Frank Southgate studied at Bideford Art School. Works include Notes of an East Coast Naturalist.
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• Name — Frank Southgate • Honorific Suffix — RBA • Birth Name — Edward Frank Southgate • Born — 1 August 1872 • Birthplace — Hunstanton, England • Died — 23 February 1916 • Place of death — France
Biography
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• Illustration — Image from Notes of an East Coast Naturalist, titled 'The stricken mallard.' Edward Frank Southgate was born 1 August 1872 in Hunstanton, Norfolk. He was a student at Bideford Art School and Cambridge School of Art. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. Southgate painted mainly birds and sporting scenes. His paintings of ducks and other birds in (for instance "The Stricken Mallard") were internationally renowned. In 2013 he was marked as one of the "excellent bird painters, who both illustrated books and painted pictures for the private collector", together with Winifred Austen, George Edward Lodge and Allen W. Seaby. Southgate died in 1916, whilst serving in the Army during the First World War in France, aged 43 years. He received a short 'Im Memoriam' (in Dutch) by A.B. Wigman in De Levende Natuur (vol. 21, 1916). Some of his paintings are part of collections of local Norfolk museums, like the Lynn Museum in King's Lynn (two portraits) and the Norwich Castle museum ("Marsh harrier and wounded teal").
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1872
Frank Southgate was born on 1 January 1872.
1916
Frank Southgate died on 1 January 1916.
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• Illustration — Frontispiece of Notes of an East Coast Naturalist, showing shovelers and bearded tit Southgate also illustrated several books, for instance: * * * * * * *
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Philip Edward Thomas Artist Frank Southgate, R.B.A.
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