Biography from Newman Galleries:
| Frank F. English was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1854. English worked in watercolor, primarily painting landscapes of the countryside and the activities along the Delaware River.
English studied with Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1881-1882. He traveled to England, Holland, and Nova Scotia, where he sketched and made paintings.
He lived in Delaware approximately ten years, working as an illustrator and then moved to Philadelphia from 1904 to 1910. English eventually settled down in Point Pleasant, (Bucks County) Pennsylvania, where he did the majority of his work.
He was a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, where he taught and served as Vice-President. He was a fellow of the Art Club of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Club of Philadelphia, and was included in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. In 1923, a year after his death, the Philadelphia Sketch Club held a memorial exhibition of his work.
The artist died on December 22, 1922 in Point Pleasant and was buried at the Point Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery. |
Biography from Edgartown Art Gallery:
| Frank F. English was born in Indiana in 1854. He lived in Mt. Holly, New Jersey and Claymont, Delaware before settling in Point Pleasant, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
In the early 1880s, he studied for five years in the evening classes of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His instructors included Thomas Eakins, as well as James P. Kelly and Thomas Anshutz.
Exhibition records indicate he resided in Claymont from 1889 to 1902, where he illustrated for local newspapers, magazines and books. He also produced landscapes in watercolor, which became his specialty.
English moved to Bucks County in 1910, and resided there until his death. He joined the Philadelphia Sketch Club in 1888, and was its Vice-President when he died in 1922.
Source:
Philadelphia Sketch Club.
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