Frank henry mason paintings for sale

Frank henry mason prints for sale
Frank Henry Mason (1 October 1875 – 24 February 1965), RBA, RI, RSMA was an English artist best known for his maritime, shipping, coastal and harbour paintings.
Frank Henry Algernon Mason is today best known for his maritime, shipping, coastal and harbour paintings and as the creator of vibrant travel and railway.

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Frank Henry Mason (1875 - 1965)

One of the 'Staithes Group' of artists, Frank Henry Mason was born at Seaton Carew, Hartlepool. It was in 1897-1898 - at around the time of the launch of the new-fangled Turbinia - that Mason quit marine engineering to become a full-time artist. Mason married in 1899 and he and wife, Edith, moved to Scarborough, overlooking the North Bay. In 1906 he exhibited a picture in London - Steam Trawlers Entering Scarborough - which he offered for sale for £73, a big sum in the early 1900s, but most of his watercolours at that time cost less than £20. Mason went on to become one of Britain's finest railway poster artists and his posters, from the 1920s and 1930s, often fetch hundreds of pounds when they are auctioned in London. He became a founder member of the Staithes Art Club in 1901.

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Frank Henry Mason

British artist

Not to be confused with Frank Herbert Mason.

Frank Henry Mason
Born	Frank Henry Algernon Mason (1875-10-01)1 October 1875 Seaton Carew, County Durham, England
Died	24 February 1965(1965-02-24) (aged 89)
Education	Scarborough College of Art
Known for	Painting, Drawing, Etching
Movement	light impressionist, art deco, Orientalism
Elected	RBA, RI, RSMA
Patron(s)	GNR, GWR, LMS, NER, LNER, UERL
Website	Frank Henry Mason

Frank Henry Mason (1 October 1875 – 24 February 1965), RBA, RI, RSMA was an English artist best known for his maritime, shipping, coastal and harbour paintings, and as a creator of art deco travel and railway posters. His style is described as "light impressionist" and he was a founder member of the Staithes Art Club whose members are known today as the Staithes group of artists, or the Northern Impressionists.^[1]

Early life

Mason was born Frank Henry Algernon Mason in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, County Durham, England on 1 October 1875,^[2]

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Biography

What is certain is that as a very young boy he lived with his grandfather who was a lighthouse keeper under the Tees Conservatory. The young Mason grew up surrounded by all things nautical and was enlisted as a cadet on HMS Conway in 1888, a Naval training ship moored at Birkenhead. On leaving HMS Conway, Frank spent some time at sea before training as a marine engineer and working at Hartlepool, Leeds and Scarborough. He eventually settled in Scarborough with his parents about 1890.

There was a strong artistic community in Scarborough at that time centred on the harbour area where Mason watched marine artists such as Thomas Bush Hardy and Ernest Dade at work. By about 1895 Frank's work had advanced to the point where he received regular commissions from art dealers and chose to become a professional artist.

From an early age Mason was rarely without some sort of sailing craft for his personal use. His early enthusiasm for sailing was formalised when attaining membership of the Scarborough Sailing Club in the year of its formation, 1895, along with fellow Scarb