Artist Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819-1895) | English 19th Century Painter | Art & beauty

Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819-1895) In the 70s of the nineteenth century, he actively worked as an illustrator, collaborated with the magazine "Cassell" and made illustrations for him: "Othello", "Romeo and Juliet", etc.

Dicksee's works are very colorful. They are influenced by the classicism of Frederick Leighton and the abstract idealism of GF Watts.

Dicksee's penchant for decorative painting developed from his collaboration with Henry Holiday, who worked on stained glass windows.

Thomas Francis Dicksee (He was born on December 13, 1819, in Condom, France) He was a painter of English origin.

He was a portraitist and painter of historical and genre subjects, often of Shakespeare, a student of HP Briggs.

He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1841 until the year of his death.

His brother John Robert Dicksee was also a painter, and his sons, Sir Francis Dicksee and Margaret also became painters.

Thomas Dicksee also produced a series of portraits of family members, and also painted idealized portraits, including Shakespearean characters: Ophelia, Beatriz, Miranda, and Ariel.

Juliet is in the Sunderland art gallery, and At the Opera is in the collection of Leicester Art Gallery.

A portrait of Lady Teasdale is in the Adelaide Gallery of Art, Australia and an Ophelia (1875) is in the Mead Museum of Art, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Dicksee would become especially known for his performances of Shakespearean heroines and exhibited a total of seven at the Royal Academy.

Other oil paintings have been seen at various auctions, including Christ of the Cornfield, Distant Thoughts, and paintings by Beatrice, Miranda, and Amy Robsart.

He died on 6 November 1895 in London, UK.