Frank Moss BENNETT
1874–1952, England
Biography
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Frank Moss Bennett is best remembered for his prolific range of historic genre paintings that were set in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, though he lived well into the mid 1900's he chose to look at the past for his artistic inspiration. See his works as you would fictional movie sets and you will literally get the picture.
Born in Liverpool, he studied art at the St John's Wood School of Art and at the Slade and RA schools, where he won a travelling scholarship and a gold medal. Exhibiting also at the RA, RI and Paris Salon.
Frank Moss Bennetts favourite subjects were steeped in 'olde world charme' such as tavern scenes and particularly red coated hunting scenes and everyday life for which he is famous. yet his output included Elizabethan and Stuarts, Dickensian and historical figures, Cardinals and did a goodly amount of portraiture, all fulfilling a middle class public demand for art of its kind...
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