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Watercolour, 36.25 x 53cm (14¼ x 20¾’’)
Signed
€ 600 - 800
Watercolour, 25 x 35cm (9¾ x 13¾’’)
Signed and dated 1929
€ 500 - 700
Frank Egginton, son of the painter Wycliffe Egginton, was born in Cheshire and educated at
Newton College and then Newton Abbot College of Art, before spending some time in an archi-
tect’s office perfecting his drawing.
In 1930 he visited Co. Donegal to paint and continued to return year after year. He exhibited
The Calabber River, Co. Donegal at the 1936 Royal Scottish Academy. In 1938 he visited the USA
and spent several months travelling and painting the landscape and American Indians in their
villages. During the Second World War he worked in a Belfast factory, and in 1946 he moved
with his wife to Cookstown, Co. Tyrone. A keen ornithologist, in his younger days he had painted
on bird-watching trips in Iceland and Switzerland.
Between 1932 and 1938 Egginton exhibited a selection of works with Donegal connections at
the Royal Hibernian Academy. In 1952 he was part of a joint exhibition at the Victor Waddington
Galleries in Dublin with Howard Knee. A regular exhibitor with the Fine Art Society in London,
Egginton showed well over one hundred works there. He was primarily known for his waterco-
lours, although later he began painting some oils.
His works can be found in the Queen’s University collection.