Property from an English Collection

FRANK SHORT (BRITISH 1857-1945)
Sunset; Evening coastal scene
each signed (lower right)
watercolour
22 x 28 cm each (2)

PROVENANCE: acquired from Denys Brook-Hart (author/British Marine painters)
David Messum

Sir Francis Job Frank Short, printmaker, and teacher of printmaking. He revived the practices of mezzotint and pure aquatint while expanding the expressive power of line in drypoint, etching, and engraving. He also wrote about printmaking to educate a wider public and was President of the Royal Society of The Etcher & Engravers (known as The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) from 1910 to 1938.