# Frank Short artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/frank-short/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:29:02.230Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Mezzotint, Aquatint, Drypoint, Etching, Engraving

## Portrait

![Frank Short](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Frank_Short_in_1914.jpg)
Bassano Ltd · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Short_in_1914.jpg

## About Frank Short

Sir Francis Job Short, commonly known as Frank Short, was a British printmaker, engraver, and teacher active across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is associated particularly with the revival and wider appreciation of mezzotint and aquatint, while his practice also encompassed drypoint, etching, and engraving. Short combined technical work with education: he taught printmaking, wrote about the field for a broader audience, and held prominent roles within British artistic organizations. He served as president of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers from 1910 to 1938 and was elected Master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1901. Collectors are therefore likely to encounter his name in connection with British prints and works on paper made through several distinct intaglio processes. Authority records and museum profiles identify him under both Frank Short and Francis Job Short, making those name forms useful when researching catalogues, collection records, and auction listings.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Frank Short's name are principally prints and works on paper, including mezzotints, aquatints, drypoints, etchings, and engravings. The source pack does not establish a reliable list of recurring subjects, named series, edition sizes, or print states, so those details should be verified from the individual object and its catalogue documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Frank Short's market context is primarily that of prints and works on paper. An appraisal should first establish that the object is correctly attributed and identify its process, such as mezzotint, aquatint, drypoint, etching, or engraving. Comparable sales are most useful when they concern the same technique and a genuinely similar type of work. Auction dates, realized prices, catalogue descriptions, and lot context can then help frame the evidence, but the directory count alone should not be read as a price trend or as confirmation that every record represents a distinct, authentic work. The collected source pack contains no fetched major-auction-house biography or detailed catalogue evidence, so object-specific conclusions require reviewed records beyond this identity summary.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity and market evidence are kept distinct so that a biographical match does not by itself establish attribution or value.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12957182
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-frank-short-492
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG46158
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.3042.html
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83227318
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500003216
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/13218501/
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/short-frank-18571945
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Short
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Short