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Frank Henry Mason
1875-1965
"Mont St Michel"
The Etching
This is a very large etching (plate size 45 cm by 32 cm) by Frank Henry Mason (most are quite small) It depicts "Mont St Michel" in the background with various fishing boats and figures. It is a fantastic etching by this important artist. It is fully signed in pencil in the margin lower left and has a provenance.
Provenance
Hare & Whitley, Scarborough (old label and inscription verso)
The Artist
Frank Henry Mason was born in Seaton Carew, Tyne & Wearin 1965. He began training for a naval career at the age of twelve aboard HMS Conway at Birkenhead. At the end of the two-year course he began training as a marine engineer, eventually settling in Scarborough.
He had long been interested in drawing and, although he had no formal training in art, he had ample opportunity to learn. Scarborough harbour at that time was a favourite haunt for artists including Ernest Dade and Thomas Bush Hardy. In the late 1890s Mason’s work had progressed to the point where he was being given commissions by dealers and he felt able to become a full-time professional artist.
He made regular trips to Staithes to paint and to socialise with other artists there and became a founder member of the Staithes Art Club in 1901.
Mason was elected a Member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1904 and a Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 1929. Appointed an official war artist during the First World War, there are examples of his work in the Imperial War Museum galleries in Bradford, Dundee, Hartlepool and Whitby. He exhibited at Agnew and Sons, the Alpine Club Gallery, Royal Society of Artists Birmingham, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the Walker Gallery Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal
Institute of Oil Painters
Reference & Bibliography
Staithes Group Centenary Exhibition, Rosamund Jordan 2003
The Life and Career of Frank Henry Mason, Edward Yardley, Hartlepool Museum Services The Artists of Northumbria, Marshall Hall, 2nd Edition, Titus Wilson & son Ltd., Kendal,
1982.
The Staithes Group, Peter Phillips, Phillips and Sons, Marlow1993
The Yorkshire Union of Artists 1888 – 1922, Dennis Child, Leeds Philosophical and
Literary Society Ltd, Leeds 2001
The Dictionary of British Artists 1880 – 1940, J. Johnson & A. Greutzner, Antique
Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge 1976
Condition
In very good condition, plate marks visible, one small feint mark light colouring of the paper.
Size
It measures 66 cm by 53 cm (framed) 45 cm by 32 cm (plate size)
Shipping Price
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