Francis Job Short (June 19, 1857–April 22, 1945), English engraver, was born at Stourbridge, Worcestershire. Events 1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Click here for Indian Rebellion of 1857 Year 1857 ( MDCCCLVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the Events 1500 - Portuguese Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Stourbridge is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands of England. Worcestershire (ˈwʊstəʃə abbreviated Worcs) is a county located in the West Midlands region of central England.
He was educated to be a civil engineer, and was engaged on various works in the Midlands until 1881, when he came to London as assistant to Mr Baldwin Latham in connexion with the Parliamentary Inquiry into the pollution of the river Thames. A civil engineer is a person who practices Civil engineering, one of the many engineering professions Year 1881 ( MDCCCLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Thames ( is a major River flowing through southern England. He was elected an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1883. Founded on 2 January 1818, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE is an independent Professional association, based in central London, Having worked at the Stourbridge School of Art in his early years he joined the National Art Training School, South Kensington, in 1883. He also worked at the life class under Professor Fred Brown at the Westminster School of Art, and for a short time at the Schools of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours.
His real life-work now became that of an original and translator engraver. He was a keen student of the works of JMW Turner; and his etchings and mezzotints from Turner's Liber Studiorum (1885 seq. Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 &ndash 19 December 1851 was an English Romantic landscape painter, Watercolourist and Mezzotint is a Printmaking process of the intaglio family technically a Drypoint method ), wonderful examples of painstaking devotion and unrivalled skill, were among his earliest successes, showing the deepest sympathetic study of the originals combined with a full knowledge of the resources of engraving and unwearied patience.
Short received the highest praise and constant advice and encouragement from Ruskin, and the co-operation of students of Turner such as Mr WG Rawlinson and the Rev. Stopford Brooke. John Ruskin (8 February 1819 &ndash 20 January 1900 is best known for his work as an Art critic, sage writer, and Social critic, but is remembered After completing the series from the existing plates of Turner's Liber Short turned to the subjects which Turner and his assistants had left incomplete. Several fine plates resulted from this study, bearing the simple lettering "F. Short, Sculp. , after J. M. W. Turner, R. A. ," which told very little of the work expended on their production even before the copper was touched.
Short also reproduced in fine mezzotints several of the pictures of GF Watts, "Orpheus and Eurydice," "Diana and Endymion," "Love and Death," "Hope," and the portrait of Lord Tennyson, all remarkable as faithful and imaginative renderings. George Frederic Watts, OM ( 23 February, 1817 – 1 July, 1904; sometimes spelled "George Frederick Watts" was a popular Alfred Tennyson 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892 was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular English poets His own fine quality as a water-colour painter made him also a sympathetic engraver of the landscapes of David Cox and Peter de Wint. David Cox ( April 29, 1783 - June 7, 1859) was an English landscape painter. Peter De Wint ( 21 January 1784 - 30 January 1849) was an English Landscape painter. His subtle drawing of the receding lines of the low banks and shallows of river estuaries and flat shores is seen to perfection in many of his original etchings, mezzotints, and aquatints, notably "Low Tide and the Evening Star" and "The Solway at Mid-day. " Other plates that may be mentioned are:
- "Gathering the Flock on Maxwell Bank," a soft-ground etching
- "The Ferry over the Blyth," "Walberswick Pier," soft-ground
- "Dutch Greengrocery," "Noon on the Zuider Zee," "De-venter," "Strolling Players at Lydd," "An April Day in Kent," and "Staithes," all etchings
- "A Wintry Blast on the Stourbridge Canal," "Peveril's Castle," and "Niagara Falls," dry points
- "The Curfew," "A Span of old Battersea Bridge," and "Sunrise on Whitby Scaur," aquatints
- "Ebbtide, Putney Bridge," "The Weary Moon was in the Wane," "Solway Fishers," "The Lifting Cloud," and "A Slant of Light in Polperro Harbour," mezzotints
Short was elected ARA in 1906 when the rank of associate-engraver was revived. As head of the Engraving School at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington, he had great influence on younger engravers. Short was elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1885, and took a prominent part in conducting its affairs. In 1910 he succeeded Sir Seymour Haden as president. Sir Francis Seymour Haden ( September 16, 1818 - June 1, 1910) was an English surgeon, best known as an Etcher He received, amongst other distinctions, the gold medal for engraving at the Paris International Exhibition, 1889, and another gold medal (Rappel) 1900. He was knighted in 1911.
The Etched and Engraved Work of Frank Short, by Edward F Strange (1908), describes 285 plates by the artist.
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