FRANK HENRY ALGERNON MASON (ENGLISH 1876-1965) “A Virginia Trader Entering the Downs off Dover,” oil on artist’s board, signed lower right Frank H. Mason, painted circa 1930’s.
25 in. x 39 in.
In the years just prior to the Revolution, over twenty per cent of all shipping traffic to Great Britain came from the American Colonies. The English ships that carried tobacco, timber, whale oil, rum and other goods imported from America, and returned with clothing, tools, blankets and other goods for the colonial markets were known as “Virginia Traders.” Mason was educated aboard the training ship H.M.S. Conway; He also served the R.N.V.R. as commissioned Naval artist in the First World War. From this period’s work, Mason contributed fifty-six of his paintings to the Imperial War Museum. Mason was among the Fellows of the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Marine Artists, Royal Society of British Artists, Institute of Painters in Watercolors and other prestigious art societies in England.
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