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Frank
Moss Bennett
British [1874-1953]UNTITLED,
A SPORTING AFTERNOON; 1922
Oil on canvas
14 x 20 ins.
Sold @ $ 7,700
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Frank Moss Bennett was a
painter of portraits and historical genre subjects,
decorator and designer of costume figures. He was born
in Liverpool in 1874, and studied art at the Slade
School, St John's Wood School of Art and finally at the
Royal Academy Schools, where he won a gold medal and
travelling studentship. Bennett's work reflects the
nineteenth century fascination with the intimate human
details of the past. In the same way as the historical
novel became a popular literary form, so artists took
pleasure in painting pictures which trivialised history,
reducing heroic antiquity to the banal and everyday -
for example, by depicting cavaliers playing with their
children rather than fighting roundheads, or writing
love letters rather than parliamentary edicts. He
exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of
Watercolour Painters, Royal Institute of Oil Painter and
in the provinces. His work has been much reproduced over
the years and is very popular with collectors.
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