Sulla Schelda presso Antwerp

Sulla Schelda presso Antwerp is a beautiful black and white xylograph on paper, realized by  Sir Frank William Brangwyn  (Bruges, 1867 - Ditchling, 1956).

A modern artwork representing a seaside is taken from the journal Vita d'Arte , the   monthly magazine of ancient and modern art, founded in Siena in January 1908 and closed in December 1919 and published by Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan.

With the title, the author, the journal and the publishing house printed on the lower margin at the center and on the sides.

In very good conditions, except for light foxing along the margins, including a cream-colored passepartout, cm 49 x 34.

Sir Frank William Brangwyn  (Bruges, 1867 - Ditchling, 1956)

The British painter, engraver and illustrator, born in Bruges, Belgium, was the son of William Curtis Brangwyn, the decorator of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. In Wales in 1875, he received an artistic education first at his father's studio and then at the atelier of the famous artist William Morris.

In 1884, his passion for art received a considerable incentive with the admission of one of his canvases to the Royal Academy's summer exhibition and six years later, in 1890, his  Funeral At Sea  painting won the gold medal at the Salon Paris. The work was inserted, after a period of intense landscape experimentation, within the so-called "gray period", characterized by the choice of a limited chromatic range.

Attracted by the oriental vein, Brangwyn left for Istanbul and the Black Sea, carrying out numerous studies and sketches: many of these drawings turned into paintings, in particular, the views of Spain, Morocco, Egypt and Turkey. After a brief return to his homeland, the painter went to Africa until, in 1895, Siegfried Bing invited him to Paris. During his stay in Europe, the critic addressed him to the applied arts and Brangwyn devoted himself to interior decoration, stained glass and the design of decorations for carpets and upholstery. His most famous work is the British Empire Panels, a series of panels on the size of the British Empire created to adorn the Houses of Westminster but that were rejected by the Parliament because they were too exotic.

After World War I, which saw him as an official artist, he painted some frescoes in the cathedral of Jefferson City, in Missouri, and was chosen by Nelson Rockefeller to decorate a part of the RCA bulding in New York, along with Diego Rivera and José Maria Sert.