Sir Frank Short
(1857-1945)

engraver, painter, and Knight Bachelor (from 1911)

Died aged c. 88

Sir Francis Job "Frank" Short RA PPRE (19 June 1857 – 22 April 1945) was a British printmaker and teacher of printmaking. He revived the practices of mezzotint and pure aquatint, while expanding the expressive power of line in drypoint, etching and engraving. Short also wrote about printmaking to educate a wider public and was President of the Royal Society of Painter Etcher & Engavers (now styled the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) from 1910 to 1938. He was a member of the Art Workers' Guild and was elected Master in 1901.

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Sir Frank Short 1857-1945 engraver and painter lived here

56 Brook Green, Hammersmith and Fulham, W6, London, United Kingdom where they lived