Frank Southgate Explained
| Frank Southgate |
| Honorific Suffix: | RBA |
| Birth Name: | Edward Frank Southgate |
| Birth Date: | 1 August 1872 |
| Birth Place: | Hunstanton, England |
| Death Place: | France |
| Nationality: | British |
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.
Biography
Ernest Frank Southgate was born 1 August 1872 in Hunstanton, Norfolk.[1]
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.[2] His paintings of ducks and other birds in Patterson 1904 (for instance "The Stricken Mallard") were internationally renowned.[3]
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).
Book illustrations
Southgate also illustrated several books, for instance:
- Book: Patterson, Arthur Henry . Arthur Henry Patterson . Notes of an East Coast Naturalist: a series of observations made at odd times during a period of twenty-five years in the neighborhood of Great Yarmouth . 1904 . London . . 15720987 .
- Book: Patterson, Arthur Henry . Nature in Eastern Norfolk ... With twelve illustrations in colour by F. Southgate . 1905 . London . Methuen . 776237584 .
- Book: Vincent, James Edmund . James Edmund Vincent . Through East Anglia in a Motor-Car . 1907 . London . Methuen . 522053 .
- Book: Fletcher, J.S. . A Book about Yorkshire ... With sixteen illustrations in colour by Wal Paget and Frank Southgate, R.B.A., and sixteen other illustrations . 1908 . London . Methuen . 561056202 .
- Book: Pollard, Hugh Bertie Campbell . Wildfowl & waders: Nature & sport in the coastlands, depicted by the late Frank Southgate, R.B.A., and described by Hugh B.C. Pollard . London . Country Life . 1928 . 3458758 .
- Book: Dutt, William A. . Norfolk . 1929 . 7th rev. . London . Methuen . 977706846 .
External links
- Frank Southgate at Artnet (anno 2020-03-12: an overview of 149 works, sold in auctions between 1988 and 2019).
Notes and References
- Web site: Southgate, Frank (1872–1916) . Artist Biographies . 2020-03-11. . Frank Southgate was born Ernest Frank Southgate. An oil painting of 1893, signed E Southgate, bears the inscription "Woods near Hunstanton Norfolk by E.F. Southgate Sept 1893". See: Web site: Frank Southgate (1872–1916) . Arcadja . 2020-03-11. One source says he is born in Suffolk (Web site: Frank Southgate (1872–1916): "In the shadow of the hedgerow" . Fletcher Gate Gallery . 2016-04-16 . 2020-03-11 . none.).
- Southgate is said to have "specialised in painting watercolours of birds" and to be "well known for his ability to capture their movement in flight. This was achieved by spending large amounts of time bird watching (...)". See: Web site: Frank Southgate: Two Springer Spaniels . Medici Gallery . 2020-03-11.
- Web site: Frank Southgate † . nl . 1916 . De Levende Natuur, vol. 21 . Wigman . A.B..
