Frank brangwyn biography

Welsh artist and designer

Sir Frank William BrangwynRARWSRBA (12 May &#;– 11 June ) was a Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, printmaker, illustrator and designer.

Brangwyn worked in a wide range of artistic fields. As well as paintings and drawings, he produced designs for stained glass, furniture, ceramics, glass tableware, mosaics, buildings and interiors, and was a lithographer and woodcutter and book illustrator.

Frank brangwyn biography

It has been estimated that during his lifetime Brangwyn produced more than 12, works. His mural commissions would cover over 22,&#;sq&#;ft (2,&#;m²) of canvas, he painted over 1, oils, more than mixed-media works (watercolours, gouache), over etchings, around wood-engravings and woodcuts, lithographs, 40 architectural and interior designs, designs for items of furniture and 20 stained glass panels and windows.

Brangwyn received some artistic training, probably from his father, and later from Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo and in the workshops of