Frank Brangwyn

Sir Frank William Brangwyn RA RWS RBA was an AngloWelsh artist, painter, water colourist, engraver, illustrator and progressive designer.

Frank Brangwyn was born in Bruges, Belgium where his father, William Curtis Brangwyn, moved after winning a competition organised by the Belgian Guild of St Thomas and St Luke to design a parish church. His forenames were registered as Guillaume Franois. In Bruges his father maintained a large workshop with several staff and worked on numerous civic projects as well as the parish church. William Curtis Brangwyn was born in Buckinghamshire to a Welsh family and married Eleanor Griffiths, who was from Brecon. In 1874 the family moved back to the United Kingdom where William Curtis Brangwyn established a successful design practice. Frank Brangwyn attended Westminster City School but often played traunt to spend time in his fathers workshop or drawing in the South Kensington Museum. Through contacts made at the Museum, among them Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo, he obtained an apprenticeship with William Morris for whom he worked first as a glazer before undertaking embroidery and wallpaper work.

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