# Frank Brangwyn artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1867-05-13
- Death date: 1956-06-11
- Nationality: British, Welsh
- Movements: Arts and Crafts context, Late Victorian and early twentieth-century British art
- Common media: Oil painting, Watercolour, Etching and engraving, Lithography, Murals and decorative design, Furniture, textiles, ceramics, glassware and jewellery design

## Portrait

![Frank Brangwyn](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Frank_Brangwyn_c1900e.jpg)
Reinhold Thiele · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Brangwyn_c1900e.jpg

## About Frank Brangwyn

Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) was a British and Welsh painter, printmaker, draughtsman and designer, born in Bruges and later based in England. His broad practice included oil painting, watercolour, etching, engraving, lithography, illustration, murals and decorative design. An apprenticeship with William Morris helped place Brangwyn within the varied design culture of the Arts and Crafts era, while his later career ranged across fine and applied arts. He worked as an Official War Artist during the First World War and became particularly known for large, energetic murals and public commissions. His proposed British Empire panels for the House of Lords, later installed at Guildhall in Swansea, are among his best-known projects. Collectors and appraisers may therefore encounter Brangwyn as a painter, printmaker, designer or maker of works on paper, with attribution, medium, scale and provenance varying substantially between examples.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal records may include Brangwyn oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, etchings, engravings and lithographs, as well as illustrated works, posters, decorative designs and editions. His subjects can include landscapes, architectural or urban views, figures, narrative scenes and large-scale mural themes connected with the British Empire. Brangwyn also designed across applied arts, including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glassware and jewellery. The same artist name can therefore cover very different objects, from a small signed print or drawing to a substantial painting, decorative panel or design-related work. Medium, dimensions, edition status, date, signature and provenance are especially useful when matching an object to comparable records.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s public index records a broad market for Frank Brangwyn, spanning paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture or mixed media, and decorative art or editions. Appraisal should begin with a genuinely comparable object: medium, dimensions, date or career period, subject and condition can all materially affect interpretation. For prints, edition information and impression quality are important; for paintings and drawings, signature, attribution confidence, provenance and exhibition or catalogue references may be decisive. Recent comparable auction results can provide context, but the available records are not a complete census of private sales or unsold material. Condition reports, restoration history and the treatment of premiums or fees should be checked before comparing realized prices.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/brangwyn-frank-18671956
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q560115
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/743
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-frank-brangwyn-802
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.3599.html
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG20732
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/111102197
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500026093
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/54420453/
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/frank-brangwyn/