Background
Thomas Francis Dicksee was born on December 13, 1819 in Condom, Midi-Pyrenees, France. His brother John Robert Dicksee was also a painter.
Thomas Francis Dicksee was born on December 13, 1819 in Condom, Midi-Pyrenees, France. His brother John Robert Dicksee was also a painter.
Thomas was the pupil of H.P. Briggs.
Thomas Francis Dicksee exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1841 until the year of his death. He also produced a series of portraits of family members and also painted idealized portraits, including the Shakespearean characters Ophelia, Beatrice, Miranda, and Ariel. A "Juliet" is in the Sunderland Art Gallery, and "At the Opera" is in the collection of Leicester Art Gallery.
A portrait of Lady Teasdale is in the Adelaide Art Gallery, Australia, and an "Ophelia", created in 1875, is in the Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts. Dicksee would become particularly well known for his depictions of Shakespearean heroines and exhibited a total of seven at the Royal Academy. Other oil paintings have been seen in several auctions including Christ of the Cornfield, Distant Thoughts, and paintings of Beatrice, Miranda, and Amy Robsart. The artist died in London on November 6, 1895.
Ideal Portrait of Lady Macbeth
Ofelia
Cleopatra
Little Florist
Anne Page
Miranda
Amy Robsart
Juliet
Jessica
Christ of the Cornfield "and He Said Unto Them, the Sabbath was Made for Man,and Not Man for the Sabbath." Mark, Ii, 27.
A Labour of Love, from the "illustrated London News"
Juliet on the Balcony
Ophelia
Thomas Francis Dicksee adhered to the artistic traditions of Romanticism.
His children, Sir Francis Dicksee and Margaret, became painters.
