Frederick Austin (1902 - 1990)

Decorating the Font, 1946

£1,200.00

SKU: 10316
Signed and dated in the plate. Etching, the original copper plate.
Presentation:
passe-partout

Size:
Height – 21cm x Width – 14.8cm

1 in stock

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Artist’s Estate; Private collection

Winning the Prix de Rome for engraving in 1927 Austin followed in the footsteps of

his better known brother the engraver  Robert Sergent Austin, (winner of the Prix de Rome in 1922).

In order to establish a separate identity he called himself Austin Frederick.

 

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THE ARTIST

Frederick Austin
Frederick
Austin
1902 - 1990

Printmaker and painter, born in Leicester, brother of the artist Robert Sargent Austin. He studied at Leicester School of Art and at Royal College of Art under Malcolm Osborne, William Rothenstein and Randolph Schwabe, 1924-7. Prix de Rome for engraving won in 1927. Exhibited RA, RE of which he was a member, and extensively abroad. British Museum, Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield and several foreign collections hold his work. Lived in London.

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