Tags: Frank Brangwyn engraving men portraits 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Provenance: Gordon Anderson, Brighton
Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.189.
This half length portrait of Count Albert Belleroche (1864-1944), the painter and lithographer, a friend and contemporary of Brangwyn, was produced in 1920. Belleroche stands in greatcoat with a large hat, surrounded by foliage and a large bird, similar in spirit to the background of the Empire Panels, Brangwyn's Chef d'Oeuvre of the period.
This rare wood engraving, of which only a very few proofs were printed, was given by Brangwyn to William de Belleroche, Albert's son.
A giant of twentieth century art, admired by luminaries such as Kandinsky, Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec, Tiffany and Bonnard, Brangwyn remains today a figure who has never managed to reclaim the space which for the first half of the twentieth century he largely occupied on the International stage. There are many reasons why Brangwyn remains out of vogue today – he was a maverick and he was prolific and his work refuses to be easily categorized.
We are grateful to Dr Libby Horner for assistance.
