Live Auction 17199British & European Art: Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
Frank Craig (1874-1918)
Lot 50

Frank Craig (1874-1918)

Stopping in front of Alameda Golden's large canvas he gazed uncomfortably on what she had wrought there

Closed11 July 2019

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Frank Craig (1874-1918)
Stopping in front of Alameda Golden's large canvas he gazed uncomfortably on what she had wrought there
signed and dated 'FRANK CRAIG 1915' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on buff paper
18 ¾ x 28 in. (47.7 x 71.1 cm.)

David Dickson(†); Bonhams, London, 7 March 2006, lot 106.

Specialist note

The present work is an illustration for a story by Robert W. Chambers, The girl Phillippa: A Strange Adventure in Love and War, chronicled in Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine, February to December 1916. Craig studied at the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. Initially an illustrator for magazines such as the American publication Scribner's and for The Graphic, he was also much in demand as a book illustrator for publications such as Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling (1910).