Frank Southgate

Edward Frank Southgate RBA (1 August 1872 – 23 February 1916) was a British painter. He spent most of his life in Norfolk and concentrated on painting birds, especially waterfowl, and hunting scenes.

Ernest Frank Southgate was born 1 August 1872 in Hunstanton, Norfolk.^[1]

He was a student at Bideford Art School and Cambridge School of Art.

He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists.

Southgate painted mainly birds and sporting scenes.^[2] His paintings of ducks and other birds in Patterson 1904 (for instance "The Stricken Mallard") were internationally renowned.^[3]

Southgate died in 1916, whilst serving in the Army during the First World War in France, aged 43 years. He received a short 'Im Memoriam' (in Dutch) by A.B. Wigman in De Levende Natuur (vol. 21, 1916).^[3]

Southgate also illustrated several books, for instance:

• Patterson, Arthur Henry (1904). Notes of an East Coast Naturalist: a series of observations made at odd times during a period of twenty-five years in the neighborhood of Great Yarmouth. London: Methuen & Co. OCLC 15720987.
• Patterson, Arthur Henry (1905). Nature in Eastern Norfolk ... With twelve illustrations in colour by F. Southgate. London: Methuen. OCLC 776237584.
• Vincent, James Edmund (1907). Through East Anglia in a Motor-Car. London: Methuen. OCLC 522053.
• Fletcher, J.S. (1908). A Book about Yorkshire ... With sixteen illustrations in colour by Wal Paget and Frank Southgate, R.B.A., and sixteen other illustrations. London: Methuen. OCLC 561056202.
• Pollard, Hugh Bertie Campbell (1928). Wildfowl & waders: Nature & sport in the coastlands, depicted by the late Frank Southgate, R.B.A., and described by Hugh B.C. Pollard. London: Country Life. OCLC 3458758.
• Dutt, William A. (1929). Norfolk (7th rev. ed.). London: Methuen. OCLC 977706846.

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• Frank Southgate at Artnet (anno 2020-03-12: an overview of 149 works, sold in auctions between 1988 and 2019).