Frank Dicksee

Dicksee's father, Thomas Dicksee, was a painter who taught Frank as well as his sister Margaret from a young age. The family lived in Fitzroy Square, Bloomsbury. Dicksee enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools in 1870 and achieved early success. He was elected to the academy in 1891 and became its president in 1924. He was knighted in 1925, and named to the Royal Victorian Order by King George V in 1927. In 1921 Dicksee exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art in London. Dicksee painted The Funeral of a Viking (1893; Manchester Art Gallery), which was donated in 1928 by Arthur Burton in memory of his mother to the Corporation of Manchester. Victorian critics gave it both positive and negative reviews, for its perfection as a showpiece and for its dramatic and somewhat staged setting, respectively. The painting was used by Swedish Viking/Black metal band Bathory for the cover of their 1990 album, Hammerheart. A book on Frank Dicksee's life and work with a full catalogue of his known paintings and drawings by Simon Toll was published by Antique Collector's Club in 2016. ==Gallery==

File:Dicksee-An Offering.jpg|An Offering File:El funeral de un vikingo, por Frank Dicksee.jpg|The Funeral of a Viking, 1893 File:Dicksee Frank, La Belle Dame Sans Merci.jpg|La Belle Dame sans Merci File:Dicksee - Beatrice.jpg|Beatrice, 1888 File:Frank Bernard Dicksee - Romeo and Juliet, 1884.jpg|Romeo and Juliet, 1884 File:Sir Frank Dicksee - The Two Crowns - Google Art Project.jpg|The Two Crowns, 1900 File:Frank Bernard Dicksee - Hesperia, 1887.jpg|Hesperia, 1887 File:Frank Dicksee - Stella.jpg|Stella, 1900 File:Frank Dicksee - Paolo and Francesca.jpg|Paolo and Francesca, 1894 File:Lady Hillingdon, by Frank Dicksee.jpg|Lady Hillingdon, 1905 File:Dicksee-Portrait of the Artist's Niece, Dorothy-1917.jpg|''Portrait of the Artist's Niece, Dorothy'', 1917 File:Yseult by Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee.jpg|Yseult, 1901 File:Dicksee-Passion-1892.jpg|Passion, 1892 ==See also==