EMANUEL, Frank Lewis

1865 - 1948

Frank Lewis Emanuel was born at Bayswater, London on 15 September 1865, eldest son and second child of Lewis Emanuel (1832-1898), a solicitor, and his wife Julia née Salomons, who married at London City in 1863. Frank was educated at University College London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) and at the Académie Julian in Paris under William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) and Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1911). In 1911, a 44-year-old unmarried pictorial artist, living at 67 Ladbroke Gardens, Kensington with his 67-year-old widowed mother Julia. Frank was a painter, etcher, illustrator and writer, an opponent of modern art, he published art criticism and topographical drawings in the 'Architectural Review' and the 'Manchester Guardian' and was the author of 'The Illustrators of Montmartre' 1903 and 'Etching and Etchings' (1930) and others. He taught etching at the Central School of Arts and Crafts 1918–1930 travelling in Europe, South Africa and Ceylon and he exhibited at the Paris Salon and most years at the Royal Academy from 1888 also showing at the New English Art Club and in Japan, Australia, America, Germany, Holland and elsewhere and had a show of his watercolours in the Méryon Galleries, Paris in 1912. Emanuel exhibited at the Ipswich Art Club in 1933 from 2 St John's Gardens, Holland Park, London, a pencil drawing 'Cromis Mill, Mousehold: destroyed 1933' and he produced a large body of work at Walberswick and Southwold in Suffolk with many of his paintings being reproduced as picture postcards by Raphael Tuck. He married at Amersham, Buckinghamshire in 1909, Florence Crawford-Evans (2 January 1869-1947) and they had one son. In 1939, a married artist & draughtsman, living at St John's Gardens, Holland Park, Kensington with his solicitor brother Charles Herbert Emanuel (1868-1962), Florence was living at Coulsden Surrey. Frank Lewis Emanuel was of 2 St Johns Gardens, Holland Park, London when he died at St Charles Hospital, Kensington, London on 7 May 1948, aged 83. He signed his works 'Frank L. Emanuel'.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 60 Bedford Gardens, Kensington
1888 163 Italy in England
         217 Calliope
1890 173 Edged Tools
1891 970 Down Channel
1893 1440 An Old Cornishman - etching

1908 66 Cloisters at Montreuil
         558 The Church Pool, Etaphles

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Works by This Artist