School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk

Display artist/maker:

Robert Sargent Austin

Born: 1895, UK, England, Leicester   Died: 1973

Printmaker. Studied at the Royal College of Art under Frank Short (1857-1945). He won the Prix de Rome in 1922 which enabled him to study at the British School at Rome, 1922-25. He later taught as Professor of Engraving at the Royal College of Art. He produced detailed etchings, engravings and lithographs of human subjects with particular interest in the female figure. A study of his work - 'A Catalogue of Etchings & Engravings by Robert Austin, R.E.: 1913-1929' by the print collector Campbell Dodgson - was published as early as 1930. His brother Frederick Austin (1902-1990) was also an artist

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

A Roman Madonna PR508 Prints

Alice Lush PR3490 Prints

Bell No.1 PR3488 Prints

Bell No.2 PR3489 Prints

Bellfry Steps PR3497 Prints

Comare Giulia PR3482 Prints

Easter Sunday PR3503 Prints

Girl by a Gate PR3502 Prints

Girl on Stairs PR3500 Prints

Litany PR511 Prints

Man with a Crucifix PR3483 Prints

Mask PR3495 Prints

Plane Tree Cottage PR3486 Prints

Portrait of a Lady PR3492 Prints

Salus Infirmorum PR3480 Prints

Siena PR3481 Prints

Sisters of Assisi PR509 Prints

The Horse of Ostend PR3479 Prints

The Letter PR3501 Prints

The Pack Bridge PR3487 Prints

Widow PR3504 Prints

Woman of Scanno PR3485 Prints

Woman Sleeping PR3493 Prints

Women in Church PR3484 Prints

Young Mother PR3499 Prints



 
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