Frank Southgate
Frank Southgate RBA | |
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| Born | Edward Frank Southgate 1 August 1872 Hunstanton, England |
| Died | 23 February 1916 (aged 43) France |
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
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Edward 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] 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.[4]
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).[3]
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").[5]
Book illustrations
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Southgate also illustrated several books, for instance:
- Patterson, Arthur Henry (1904). 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. London: Methuen & Co. OCLC 15720987.
- Patterson, Arthur Henry (1905). Nature in Eastern Norfolk ... With twelve illustrations in colour by F. Southgate. London: Methuen. OCLC 776237584.
- Vincent, James Edmund (1907). Through East Anglia in a Motor-Car. London: Methuen. OCLC 522053.
- Fletcher, J.S. (1908). A Book about Yorkshire ... With sixteen illustrations in colour by Wal Paget and Frank Southgate, R.B.A., and sixteen other illustrations. London: Methuen. OCLC 561056202.
- Wild Nature and Country Life. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1912. OCLC 774436071.
- Pollard, Hugh Bertie Campbell (1928). 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. OCLC 3458758.
- Dutt, William A. (1929). Norfolk (7th rev. ed.). London: Methuen. OCLC 977706846.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Southgate, Frank (1872–1916)". Artist Biographies. Archived from the original on 11 April 2025. Retrieved 11 March 2020..
- ↑ 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: "Frank Southgate: Two Springer Spaniels". Medici Gallery. Archived from the original on 25 February 2025. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
- 1 2 Wigman, A.B. (1916). "Frank Southgate †" (in Dutch). De Levende Natuur, vol. 21.
- ↑ Campbell, Bruce; Lack, Elizabeth (2013). A Dictionary of Birds. London: Poyser. p. 301. ISBN 978 1 4081 3840 3. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ↑ "Frank Southgate 1872-1916". Art UK. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
External links
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- "Frank Southgate". Artnet. Archived from the original on 19 November 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2025. (anno 2025-08-08: an overview of 163 works, sold in auctions between 1988 and 2025).
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- 19th-century British painters
- 20th-century British painters
- People from Hunstanton
- 1872 births
- 1916 deaths
- Alumni of Anglia Ruskin University
- British painters of animals
- British bird artists
- British Army personnel of World War I
- British military personnel killed in World War I
- Royal Fusiliers soldiers
- Military personnel from Norfolk