About Frank Southgate
Lived 1872 – 1916 (aged 43). Frank Southgate was a British painter and illustrator.
Edward Frank Southgate RBA (1 August 1872 – 23 February 1916) was a British painter. He spent most of his life in Norfolk and concentrated on painting birds, especially waterfowl, and hunting scenes.
Biography Image from Notes of an East Coast Naturalist, titled 'The stricken mallard.' Edward Frank Southgate was born 1 August 1872 in Hunstanton, Norfolk.
He was a student at Bideford Art School and Cambridge School of Art.
He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists.
Southgate painted mainly birds and sporting scenes. His paintings of ducks and other birds in (for instance "The Stricken Mallard") were internationally renowned. In 2013 he was marked as one of the "excellent bird painters, who both illustrated books and painted pictures for the private collector", together with Winifred Austen, George Edward Lodge and Allen W. Seaby.
Southgate died in 1916, whilst serving in the Army during the First World War in France, aged 43 years. He received a short 'Im Memoriam' (in Dutch) by A.B. Wigman in De Levende Natuur (vol. 21, 1916).
Book illustrations
Southgate also illustrated several books, for instance:
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Who was Frank Southgate?
British painter (1872-1916)
When was Frank Southgate born?
Frank Southgate was born on 1 August 1872 in Hunstanton.
When did Frank Southgate die?
Frank Southgate died on 23 February 1916 in France.
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Frank Southgate was a painter and illustrator.
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Frank Southgate was British.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Frank Southgate. https://biography.guide/frank-southgate/
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