F. DICKSEE, A.R.A.

F. DICKSEE, A.R.A.

1884

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London publisher

D. Appleton & Co., New York publisher

F. Dicksee, ARA, albumen print, approx. 6½ x 8½ in., by Frank Dudman (1855-1918) for Joseph Park Mayall (1839-1922), 1883

F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J.P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by phototengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), n.p.

Dicksee, Frank (1853-1928), English painter

May 1884

Photograph copyrighted September 14, 1883. Copyright owner of photograph, Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London. Copyright author of photograph, Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London (Public Records, The National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/365/269).

Copyright description: "Photograph of Mr J Dicksea [sic] A R A, & interior of his studio at 2 Fitzroy Square, London. Standing by the Mantel Piece."

Frank Dicksee leans against a mantlepiece holding a mahl stick, surrounded by artistic and decorative paraphernalia.

Helen Valentine, ed., Art in the Age of Queen Victoria: Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts Permanent Collection (New Haven and London: Royal Academy of Arts, in association with Yale University Press, 1999), repr. p. 146.

Benezit Dictionary of Artists, s.v. "Dicksee, Frank Bernard," Oxford Art Online, repr.

“Art in September.” The Magazine of Art 7 (September 1884): xlviii. "Mr. Mayall’s photographs—or rather, the photo-engravings on copper plates reproduced therefrom—are singularly lifeless and dull. Everybody looks as though he were sitting for his portrait; the very furniture is posing; and over all is that terrible and tremendous presence, the photographer’s light, “the light that never was on sea or land.” Mr. Calderon affronts the camera with much sternness; Sir John Gilbert has the sun in his eyes, and comes out very white and vague; Mr. Boehm, sitting desultorily among busts and statues, seems to have been caught in the act of reading the paper; while Mr. Alma Tadema, as unlike himself as possible, leans boldly and airily on the chimney-piece, and Mr. Frank Dicksee, austere yet frightened, does even as Mr. Alma Tadema, and Mr. Val Prinsep turns from his picture with a frown, as if he felt inclined to wring the photographer’s neck."

Romeo and Juliet, 1884, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK.

Spring Maiden, 1884.

The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the National Gallery of Art.

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Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts and Rare Books Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.

Omeka record contributed by Hilleary Gramling.

September 26, 2016

October 1, 2016
November 16, 2016, by LM
January 17, 2017, by LM

Photoengraving on copper.

16.5 cm h x 22cm w
6.5 in h x 8.5 in w

27.5 cm h x 37 cm w
11 in h x 14.25 in w

(Printed on the mount beneath the image) J P Mayall Photo | London published by Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 188 Fleet St. | Park Lane Studio London | F. Dicksee A.R.A | Copyright

Another version of the photograph was copyrighted on September 24, 1883: Copyright owner of photograph: Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London. Copyright author of photograph: Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London. Description: "Photograph of Mr J Dicksea A R A, & interior of his studio at 2 Fitzroy Square W. Seated in arm chair, palette in hand". "Photograph of Mr J Dicksea [sic] A R A, & interior of his studio at 2 Fitzroy Square W. Seated in arm chair, palette in hand" (Public Records, National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/365/270).