OSBORNE, Malcolm

1880 - 1963

Malcolm Osborne was born at Waterloo Place, Frome, Somerset on 1 August 1880, fourth of five sons of the six children of Alfred Arthur Osborne (1846-21 March 1910), a schoolmaster who was born at Sudbury, Suffolk, and his wife schoolteacher Sarah Elizabeth née Biggs (1842-25 September 1907), only daughter of the late James Biggs of Waterloo Frome, who married at Sheppard's Barton Chapel, Frome on 18 December 1873. Malcolm grew up in Frome and was educated at the Merchant Venturers' Technical College, Bristol and at Queen's School of Art in Bristol. In the early 1900s, together with his elder brother Harold, he moved to Streatham, London and studied etching and engraving at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington 1901-1906 under Sir Frank Short (1857-1945). In 1911, a 30-year-old artist engraver, a joint tenant with 32-year-old artist engraver Alfred Bentley (1879-1923), at 40 Park Mansions, Prince of Wales Road, Battersea Park, London, and he served as an officer gunner in the Royal Artillery in the First World War. An etcher and engraver, who was known for his prints of landscapes, urban views, and portraits, was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy 11 June 1918, a member on 13 April 1926 and a Senior on 1 January 1856. Osborne was Head of the School of Engraving and Etching at South Kensington. An Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, a member in 1909 and was president in 1938. He exhibited at Abbey Gallery; Beaux Art Gallery; Chenil Galleries; Fine Art Society; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery; Royal Academy; Ridley Art Club; Royal Scottish Academy and at the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1923, two dry point works 'Shrimant Sampatrao Gaikwad, Baroda' and 'Cathedral Steps, Le Puy', in 1932 from 44 Redcliffe Gardens, Kensington, London 'Morning at Amiens' and the following year three works 'Strath-Tay', 'Prof. C. M. Gillispie' and 'The Fountain, Carcassonne'. He married at Kensington, London in 1927, Amy Margaret Stableford (7 February 1884-29 January 1964) and in 1939 an artist draughtsman & engraver, living at 44 Redcliffe Gardens, South Kensington, London with his wife Amy. Malcolm Osborne died at 44 Redcliffe Gardens, Kensington S.W.10 on 22 September 1963 and his wife died four months later.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 32 Beaufort Street, Chelsea
1905 1359 Maggie - etching
1906, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963
the late
1964 948 Shepherds of Windermere - dry point
         949 Vezelay - dry point
         950 Chartres - etching
         951 Dieppe - etching

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Works by This Artist