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Ernest Dade | |
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| Born | Ernest Frederick Dade 1868[1] |
| Died | 3 November 1935[1] London, England |
| Other name | Ernst Dade |
| Alma mater | Académie Julian |
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Ernest Frederick Dade (1868–1935),[1][2][3] later known as Ernst Dade, was an English painter,[2] specialising in coastal and maritime subjects,[2] and maker of model ships.[4] He was a member of the Staithes group, based in the North Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes.[4]
Early life
[edit]Dade was born in Kensington, England,[4] Dade's father, Frederick Dade (1836–1874),[5] was a photographer,[5] married to Matilda Toye (1835–1919) in 1859.[5] Ernest had two older sisters and the family moved to Scarborough early in Ernest's life.[4] He later had another two sisters and three brothers,[5] one of whom, the youngest, Fred (1874–1908), was also a maritime artist.[5]
His first job was as a deck-hand on the American yacht, Dauntless.[4] In 1885–1886, he studied at Scarborough School of Art, under Albert Strange.[6] From the age of twenty he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris.[4] He later studied fresco and mural painting in the South of France.[4]
Career
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Dade and Nelson Dawson rented studios at Manresa Road, Chelsea.[4] By 1890, he was living at 8 West Bank, Seamer Road, Scarborough.[4] In 1901, he became a founder member of the Staithes Art Club.[4] After visiting Holland he began to use the first name 'Ernst'.[4]
He exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists,[4] the New English Art Club (of which he became a member in 1887[7]), the Royal Academy (from 1887 to 1901),[7] the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours,[4] the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers,[7] the Walker Art Gallery[4] and the Staithes Art Club.[4]
Personal life
[edit]Dade married Maud Alderson-Smith in St Martins Church, Scarborough in 1913.[6] With her he returned to London where he had a studio at St John's Wood, sub-let in part to fellow Staithes Group members Laura and Harold Knight.[6]
He was a member of the Society for Nautical Research.[8] and wrote articles about boats and sailing, for their quarterly journal, The Mariner's Mirror.[9] He was also a founder member and first Captain of the Scarborough Sailing Club, in 1895.[6]
Dade died in London on 3 November 1935,[3][6] and was survived by Maud.[3]
Legacy
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Institutions holding his work include the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum (which has his sketchbooks,[10] and those of his brother Fred[5]), Rotherham, Scarborough, and Whitby art galleries[4] and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[11]
Bibliography
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Books
[edit]- —— (1933). Sail and Oar. J M Dent and Sons Limited.
- —— (1988). Sail and Oar. Ipswich Book Company. ISBN 978-1871696004. (Facsimile edition, with a Preface By Peter F. Anson)[12]
Articles
[edit]- —— (January 1932). "Trawling Under Sail on the North East Coast". The Mariner's Mirror. 18 (4): 363–374. doi:10.1080/00253359.1932.10655670. (subscription required)
- —— (January 1933). "Old Yorkshire Yawls". The Mariner's Mirror. 19 (2): 182–195. doi:10.1080/00253359.1933.10655697. (subscription required)
- —— (January 1934). "The Cobbles". The Mariner's Mirror. 20 (2): 199–207. doi:10.1080/00253359.1934.10655749. (subscription required)
Further reading
[edit]- Peter Phillips (1993). The Staithes group. Phillips & Sons. ISBN 978-0-9521107-0-5.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Sources vary; others give 1864–1936
- 1 2 3 Artworks by or after Ernest Dade, Art UK. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- 1 2 3 England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1936. "DADE Ernest of 16 Langford-place St. John's Wood Middlesex died 3 November 1935 Administration York 13 November to Helen Maude Dade widow. Effects £565 14s. 6d."
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Ernest Dade – Staithes Group Artist". Retrieved 29 May 2013.[permanent dead link]
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Professional Photographers in Chichester". Retrieved 30 May 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Watts, Tony (10 March 2007). "Albert's Pupils". The Albert Strange Association. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
- 1 2 3 "The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler". Retrieved 30 May 2013.
- ↑ The Mariner's Mirror, Volume 18, Issue 4, 1932
- ↑ "T and F". Retrieved 30 May 2013. – deep linking not possible; search for "Dade".
- ↑ "Collections – National Maritime Museum". Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- ↑ "The Pool, London, (1886) by Ernst Dade". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- ↑ "Sail and Oar: A Hundred Pictures By Ernest Dade". Retrieved 30 May 2013.
External links
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- 7 artworks by or after Ernest Dade at the Art UK site
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- 1860s births
- 1935 deaths
- 19th-century English male artists
- 19th-century English painters
- 20th-century English painters
- Académie Julian alumni
- Artists from Scarborough, North Yorkshire
- English marine artists
- English watercolourists
- Painters from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- People from Kensington
- 20th-century English male painters