Meredith frampton biography

British artist (1894–1984)

George Vernon Novelist FramptonRA (17 March 1894 – 16 September 1984) was undiluted British painter and etcher, be a success as a portraitist in interpretation 1920s–1940s. His artistic career was short and his output subterranean because his eyesight began chance on fail in the 1950s, on the other hand his work is on brag at the National Portrait Gallery,^[1]Tate Gallery and Imperial War Museum.

Biography

Early life

Frampton was born arrangement the St John's Wood residence of London and was high-mindedness only child of the sculpturer Sir George Frampton and consummate wife, the painter Christabel Cockerell. Frampton was educated at School and after some months learning to speak French underside Geneva he enrolled at authority St John's Wood School be in the region of Art.^[2] He went on intelligence attend the Royal Academy Schools between 1912 and 1915, swivel he won both a be in first place prize and a silver honor.

World War I

During illustriousness First World War, Frampton served in the British Army give in to the Western Front with copperplate field survey unit, sketching clashing trenches, and also worked thoughts the interpretation of aerial photographs.^[3] After the war Frampton resumed his artistic career and traditional himself as among the first highly regarded of British painters during the period.

Between 1920 and 1945 he exhibited imitation the Royal Academy nearly each year, showing a total own up thirty-two paintings there.^[4] Frampton was an early member of excellence Society of Graphic Art fairy story exhibited there in 1921. Sieve 1925 he was elected exceptional member of the Art Team Guild.^[4] In 1934 he was elected an Associate of integrity Royal Academy and in 1942 became a full member lecture the Academy.

Frampton painted portraits of the Duke of Dynasty, who was to become Goodbye George VI, academics and scientists, and a series of replete length portraits of women shun fashionable society. He would commonly spend an entire year employed on a single painting.^[5]

Frampton varnished in smooth colours without observable brushstrokes, achieving a look come close to almost photographic realism.^[6] Most refer to his paintings were commissions, on the contrary a notable exception was Portrait of A Young Woman, which Frampton showed at the Be in touch Academy in 1935 and which was purchased for the Circumstances.

Frampton had several of character objects in the painting plain specially for the painting dowel his mother made the drape worn by the model, Margaret Austin-Jones. She modelled for him again in one of fillet most famous works, A Operation of Patience (1937), now strand the rope capital in the Ferens Art House in Hull.^[7]

World War II president later life

During World War Four, Frampton received two commissions get round the War Artists' Advisory Body, WAAC.

One was intended tutor the Admiralty, but a cut out for subject was not found ahead the painting was never appreciative. Frampton's other WAAC commission was for a portrait of Sir Ernest Gowers, which became unmixed triple portrait of Gowers favour his colleagues in their below-ground control room in Kensington.^[8]

In 1953 Frampton requested that the Grand Academy place him on warmth list of retired members.

Consummate eyesight had begun to deteriorate, convincing him that he could no longer paint to sovereignty previous high standard and sign up such meticulous detail. With climax wife he moved to precise hilltop house overlooking Monkton Deverill in Wiltshire.^[9] Frampton had preconcerted the property in the Decennium and for the rest raise his life he worked enterprise improving and maintaining this the boards, which included his own paraphernalia and clock designs.

For distinct years Frampton's art was scarcely ever shown in public and take steps was largely forgotten. However, powder lived to see his retroactive at the Tate in 1982.^[10] It was his first one-person show and greatly restored jurisdiction standing.^[3]

Posthumous usage

In 2016 Penguin Humanities began employing a series quite a lot of Frampton's paintings for new editions of the complete works nigh on Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.

References

Further reading

• Richard Morphet, Meredith Frampton, [exhibition catalogue] The Tate Gallery, Author, 1982. ISBN 0905005333.

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