Artist      Malcolm Osbourne
Title       Fanny Street
Date      1950's
object    Print
Media    dry point
Size       36.3 x 23.8cm
Ref         61

Purchased in the 99th RWA Annual Exhibition in 1951

Other websites featuring this artist's work
www.artoftheprint.com/
www.npg.org.uk/

Fanny Street
Malcolm Osbourne was born in Somerset in 1880, and was a highly influential etcher and aquatint engraver of landscapes, urban views and portraits. Osborne studied printmaking techniques under Sir Frank Short, at South Kensington School of Art. When Short retired in 1924, Osborne succeeded him as the Head of the etching and engraving school and from this position he taught many fine etchers, including Bouverie Hoyton and Geoffrey Wedgewood. Malcolm Osborne was a full member of the Royal Academy and President of the Royal Engravers. His peerless technique and draughtsmanship continues to make his work very popular with both modern day printers and collectors.

Malcom Osborbe's work is held in many public collections around the world including the British Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Smitsonian Institute in Washington, The Berliner Kunstmuseum and Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

He spent much of his life living in London, close to where he taught and it was here that he died in 1963.

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