Frank Bramley (May 6, 1857 – August 9, 1915) was an English post-impressionist genre painter of the Newlyn School.
From 1873 to 1878, Bramley studied at the Lincoln School of Art. He then studied, from 1879 to 1882, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, where Charles Verlat was his instructor. He lived in Venice from 1882 to 1884 and then moved to Newlyn. Bramley settled in the Newlyn School artists' colony on the Rue des Beaux Arts in Newlyn. Along with Walter Langley and Stanhope Forbes, he was considered one of the leading figures of the Newlyn School.
Unlike other members of the same school, Bramley specialized in interiors and worked on the combination of natural and artificial light in his paintings.
During his time at Newlyn, Bramley was a particular exponent of the "square brush technique," using the flat part of a square brush to place paint on the canvas in a pattern of brushstrokes, giving a particular vibrancy to the painted surface. In the early 1890s, his palette became brighter and his handling of paint looser and more impasto, while his subject matter narrowed to portraits and rural genre paintings.
At Ailanto we have used their famous square brush technique to paint some of our prints.
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