Frank moss bennett artist biography

British

Frank Moss Bennett was born in Liverpool, England on 15 November to Henry Mellor Bennett and Kate née Stuart.

He was the second of four sons and his father, an Iron Founder and later the Mayor of Liverpool, was a philanthropist.

Fm bennett original paintings

Not much is known about Bennett’s early education except that he was probably taught at home with his brothers, and that he showed a talent for painting at an early age. As noted by Maureen Elizabeth Son in her book Frank Moss Bennett, (The Forgotten Artist), Bennett’s earliest known artwork was a Christmas card that he painted for his grandfather when he was five years old.

Bennett enrolled at Browns House, Clifton College in Bristol where he studied until He then decided that he wanted to become an artist and enrolled that year, in the Slade School of Art in London, where he met Eddie Wells who would become a close friend and later his brother-in-law.

Together they studied under some well-known artists such a