Artist: Frank William Bourdillon (English 1852 – 1921)
Title: Bideford Sands, an incident in Henry Kingsley’s “Westward Ho!”
Medium: Antique heliogravure on wove paper after the original by a master engraver.
Signature: Signed in the plate, bottom right.
Dimensions: Image Size 7 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Frank Bourdillon was born in India and began his career as a coffee planter. He later left India and trained as an artist at the Slade School of Art in London and in Paris. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886 and moved to Newlyn in 1887. The Judgement of Paris is the first picture Bourdillon painted in Newlyn and in its subject matter and square-brush technique it clearly displays the influence of the Newlyn School of artists.