Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee PRA, DCL, KCVO
Born 27 November 1853
Died 17 October 1928
Active: 1871 - 1924
Country of birth and death: England
Painter, illustrator
Born in London. Trustee of the British Museum and National Portrait Gallery. President of the Artists' Genral Benevolent Institution.
Wealth at death: £37,905 7s. 8d.
Probate date: 29 November 1928
Institutional and Business Connections
Committee member of War Memorials Committee (Royal Academy of Arts), 1918
1918
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
20 January 1881 - 23 June 1891
Elected RA in 1891.
Elected PRA Royal Academy of Arts
10 December 1924 - 10 December 1928
Died in 1928.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
23 June 1891 - 10 December 1924
Elected PRA in 1924.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominator of Stanley Nicholson Babb
27 February 1920 - 22 February 1927
Two nominations for RA, in 1920 and 1927, both unsuccessful.
Nominator of Mortimer John Brown
27 February 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Gilbert William Bayes
27 February 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Oliver Wheatley
27 February 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Arthur George Walker
27 February 1920
For RA.
Nominator of Basil Gotto
27 February 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Henry Poole
27 February 1920
For RA.
Nominator of Harold Parker
27 February 1920
For RA.
Nominator of John Tweed
27 February 1920 - 22 February 1927
Two nominations for RA, in 1920 and 1927, both unsuccessful.
Nominator of Ernest George Gillick
27 February 1920 - 22 February 1927
Two nominations for RA.
Nominator of Richard Louis Garbe
24 February 1920
For RA.
Nominator of (Alfred) Adrian Jones
27 February 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Andrea Carlo Lucchesi
27 February 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Henry Charles Fehr
27 February 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
27 February 1920 - 22 February 1927
Two nominations for RA, in 1920 and 1927, both unsuccessful.
Nominator of Albert Arthur Toft
27 February 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Gilbert William Bayes
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Gilbert Ledward
22 February 1927
For RA.
Nominator of Edwin Whitney-Smith
February 1928
For RA; unsuccessful.
Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Jennifer Melville, ‘Dicksee, Sir Francis Bernard (1853–1928)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32819, accessed 14 May 2009]
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1906-1927
1927
p.8, p.10-13, p.39, p.42, pp.44-46, p.50, p.134, p.136, p.149, p.161, p.164.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
p.15, p.18, p.41, p.61, p.70, p.79.
Citing this record
'Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee PRA, DCL, KCVO', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1214563663, accessed 01 Apr 2023]
