DEATH OF GREAT ARTIST.
RUGBY, Oct. 17. Sir Frank Dicksee, whose death has occurred, was president of the Royal Academy. He would have retired from the presidency next month, having reached the age limit of 75. Sir Frank Dicksee’s career as an artist was one of unbroken success. For Victorian art, of which his work was representative, he had. an affection and loyalty which never faltered, and on his election as president of the Academy he publicly proclaimed his dislike of the modern tendencies of art. Sir Frank Dicksee was the painter of some of the most popular pictures of the generation, among them being “Harmony,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Passing of Arthur,” “The Funeral of a Viking,” and “The Two Crowns.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3860, 20 October 1928, Page 4
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122DEATH OF GREAT ARTIST. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3860, 20 October 1928, Page 4
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