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 Bristol School of Art at Queen's Road 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 Arts 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 Sambataro 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 1282 Street Scene Verona - etching
         1302 Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire - etching
from 40 Park Mansions, Battersea Park, Southwest London
1908 1531 The Castle under the Hill - etching
1909 1311 Glastonbury Tor, Somerset - etching
         1321 Portrait of the Artist's Mother - etching
1910 1287 St Martin in the Fields - etching
1911 1412 Noon, Wareham - etching
         1414 Margaret - etching
         1433 St Stephen's Walbrook - etching
1912 1481 A Quiet Day, Amberley - dry point
         1485 After the Storm: Amberley - etching
from Raeburn Studios, 11 Edith Grove, Chelsea
1913 1460 William Morris, after G.F. Watts - etching
         1503 Bannockburn and Stirling Castle - etching
1914 1151 A Sunlit Land - etching
         1232 Evening Glory: The Old Quarry, Bannockburn - etching
1915 230 The Heart of Scotland - etching
         275 The Market Place, Tours - etching
1917 1169 In the Garden of Stirling Castle - etching
from 15 Redcliffe Square, South Kensington
1920 1062 The Problem - etching
1921 824 Nathaniel Sparks, Esq.- dry point
         826 The Old Brewery - dry point
1922 1006 The Ford, Grbasel - etching
         1012 Trekkers on the Plain, Salonika - etching
         1052 Angra-ad-Castram - etching
from Milton House, Fernshaw Road, Chelsea
1923 1037 The Cathedral Steps, Le Puy - etching
         1042 Shrimant Sampatrao Gaikwad, Baroda - etching
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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