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Ernest Dade, later known as Ernst Dade (born Kensington, England,[2] 1868;[3] died London, 1936[1][3]) was an English painter,[3] specialising in coastal and maritime subjects,[3] and maker of model ships.[2] He was a member of the Staithes group, based in the North Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes.[2]
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Early life [link]
Dade's father, Frederick Dade (1836–1874),[4] was a photographer,[4] married to Matilda Toye (1835–1919) in 1859.[4] Ernest had two older sisters and the family moved to Scarborough early in Ernest's life.[2] He later had another two sisters and three brothers,[4] one of whom, the youngest, Fred (1874–1908), was also a maritime artist.[4]
His first job was as a deck-hand on the American yacht, Dauntless.[2] In 1885–1886, he studied at Scarborough School of Art, under Albert Strange.[5] From the age of twenty he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris.[2] He later studied fresco and mural painting in the South of France.[2]
Career [link]
Dade and Nelson Dawson rented studios at Manresa Road, Chelsea.[2] By 1890 he was living at 8 West Bank, Seamer Road, Scarborough.[2] In 1901 he became a founder member of the Staithes Art Club.[2] After visiting Holland he began to use the first name ‘Ernst’.[2]
He exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists,[2] the New English Art Club (of which he became a member in 1887[6]), the Royal Academy (from 1887 to 1901),[6] the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours,[2] the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers,[6] the Walker Art Gallery[2] and the Staithes Art Club.[2]
Personal life [link]
Dade married Maud Alderson-Smith in St Martins Church, Scarborough in 1913.[5] With her he returned to London where he had a studio at St John’s Wood, sub-let in part to fellow Staithes Group members Laura and Harold Knight.[5]
He was a member of the Society for Nautical Research.[7] and wrote articles about boats and sailing, for their quarterly journal, The Mariner's Mirror.[8] He was also a founder member and first Captain of the Scarborough Sailing Club, in 1895.[5]
Dade died in London in 1935[5] or 1936.
Legacy [link]
Institutions holding his work include the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum (which has his sketchbooks,[9] and those of his brother Fred[4]), Rotherham, Scarborough, and Whitby art galleries[2] and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[10]
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Books [link]
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References [link]
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External links [link]
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Paintings by Ernest Dade at the BBC Your Paintings site
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