Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S. Art
British, 1895-1973
Austin was born in Leicester where he studied at the School of Art before going on to the Royal College of Art where he won the Rome Scholarship for engraving in 1922. He taught engraving at the Royal College of Art from 1927 and became professor of the department of graphic design in 1948. A member of the Royal Academy and Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers he was also a regular exhibitor at the Royal Watercolour Society and was elected President of the Society, 1957-1973.(Biography provided by Sarah Colegrave Fine Art)
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Artist: Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S.
Women at Prayer
By Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S.
Located in Storrs, CT
10 15/16 x 8 7/16 (sheet 13 13/16 x 10 13/16). Subsequent to Dodgson. Edition 40 published by the Twenty-One Gallery for 7 guineas. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1936. A rich...
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1930s Renaissance Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S. Art
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Engraving
Bethlehem.
By Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S.
Located in Storrs, CT
Bethlehem. 1925. Line engraving. Dodgson 62. 6 x 4 7/8 (sheet 9 1/2 x 7 3/8). Edition 50. A rich impression printed on cream laid paper. Signed and dated in pencil.
Housed in a 20 x...
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1920s Pre-Raphaelite Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S. Art
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The Flight into Egypt
By Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S.
Located in Storrs, CT
c.1925. Line engraving. 6 1/2 x 10 3/8 (sheet 10 1/4 x 17). A rich impression with plate tone printed on cream laid paper. Signed and dated in pencil.
Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archi...
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1920s Modern Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S. Art
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Engraving
Card Players, Spain - English Pencil & Watercolor Figurative Interior Drawing
By Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S.
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful c.1927 watercolour and pencil interior depicting card players in Spain by Robert Sargent Austin RA.
Fine quality work by this noted English Royal Academician. Signed lower right and presented in an oak wash frame.
Exceptional provenance having previously been exhibited at The Fine Art Society and sold through Abbott & Holder. Label verso.
Artist: Robert Sargent Austin RA (British, 1895-1973)
Title: Card Players, Spain
Medium: Watercolour & pencil
Size: 15 x 16.5 inches (38 x 42 cm) including the frame
Robert Sargent Austin RA PPRWS PPRE (23 June 1895 – 18 September 1973) was a noted artist, illustrator, engraver and currency designer and widely considered to be one of Britain's leading mid-twentieth century printmakers.
Austin studied at Leicester Municipal School of Art from 1909 to 1913 then at the Royal College of Art in London where his studies were interrupted by the First World War. He returned to the College in 1919 when he studied etching under Sir Frank Short and was awarded a scholarship in engraving to study in Italy. During the last 10 years of the etching revival between 1920 and 1930 he produced etchings from copper plates worked in very fine detail in an almost Pre-Raphaelite style.
During the Second World War Austin worked as a war artist recording the efforts of women in the Royal Air Force and in the nursing services for the War Artists' Advisory Committee. During that period he produced a portrait of Lord Nelson as one of a series commissioned by London Transport called 'Our Heritage' and which also included portraits of William Pitt, Francis Drake, Earl Haig and Winston Churchill.
He then returned to teaching at the Royal College of Art as Professor of Engraving from 1946. Austin acted as an advisor on the design of banknotes to the Bank of England between 1956 and 1961 and designed the ten shillings and one pound notes issued in the early 1960s.
Austin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (R.E.) in 1927 and succeeded Malcolm Osborne to become the Society's President from 1962 to 1970. He was elected a full member of the Royal Watercolour Society (R.W.S.) in 1934 and served as President from 1957 to 1973. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1939 and to the full membership (R.A.) in 1949 as an engraver.
Austin was married to the writer Ada May Harrison for whom he illustrated a number of books. Ada's sister Rose was married to the sculptor and Royal Academician James_Woodford. Robert and Ada had a son, also Robert, and two daughters, Rachel and Clare. In 1936 the artist purchased...
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1920s Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S. Art
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Going to Mass, Spain - 20th Century British drawing by Robert Sargent Austin
By Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S.
Located in London, GB
ROBERT SARGENT AUSTIN, RA, PRWS, RE
(1895-1973)
Going to Mass, Spain
Black, brown and white chalks on grey paper
Framed
49 by 38 cm., 19 ¼ by 15 in.
(frame size 73 by 60.5 cm., 2...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Robert Sargent Austin, R.A., P.R.E., P.R.W.S. Art
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Chalk
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