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BRANGWYN, FRANK (1867– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 430 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRANGWYN, See also:FRANK (1867– ) , See also:English painter, was See also:born at See also:Bruges, and received his first instruction from his See also:father, the owner of an See also:establishment for See also:church embroideries and kindred See also:objects, who took a leading See also:part in the See also:Gothic revival under See also:Pugin. When the See also:family moved to See also:England, Brangwyn attracted the See also:attention of See also:William See also:Morris by a See also:drawing on which he was engaged at See also:South See also:Kensington museum. He worked for some See also:time in Morris's studio, and then travelled more than once to the See also:East, whereby his sense of See also:colour and the whole further development of his See also:art became deeply influenced. Indeed, the impressions he then received, and his love of See also:Oriental decorative art—tiles and carpets—exercised a greater See also:influence on him than any See also:early training or the See also:works of any See also:European See also:master. His whole tendency is essentially decorative: a colour-sense of sumptuous richness is wedded to an equally strong sense of well-balanced, harmonious See also:design. These qualities, together with a See also:summary suppression of the details which tie a subject to time and See also:place, give his compositions a nobly impressive and universal See also:character, such as may be seen in his decorative See also:panel " See also:Modern See also:Commerce " in the See also:ambulatory of the Royal See also:Exchange, See also:London. Among other decorative schemes executed by him are those for "L'Art nouveau" in the See also:rue de See also:Provence, See also:Paris; for the See also:hall of the Skinners' See also:Company, London; and for the See also:British See also:room at the See also:Venice See also:International See also:Exhibition, 1905. The Luxembourg museum has his " See also:Trade on the See also:Beach "; the Venice municipal museum, the " St See also:Simon Stylites "; the See also:Stuttgart See also:gallery, the " St See also:John the Baptist "; the See also:Munich Pinakothek, the " See also:Assisi "; the See also:Carnegie See also:Institute in See also:Pittsburg, his " Sweetmeat Seller "; the See also:Prague gallery, his " See also:Turkish Boatmen "; and the See also:National Gallery of New South See also:Wales, " The Scoffers." Brangwyn embarked successfully in many See also:fields of applied art, and made admirable designs for See also:book decoration, stained See also:glass, See also:furniture, See also:tapestry, See also:metal-See also:work and pottery. He devoted himself extensively to See also:etching, and executed many plates of astonishing vigour and dramatic intensity. He was elected See also:associate of the Royal See also:Academy in 1904.

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