Frank Southgate

Edward Frank Southgate RBA (1 August 1872 – 23 February 1916) was a British painter.

He spent most of his life in Norfolk and concentrated on painting birds, especially waterfowl, and hunting scenes.

Ernest Frank Southgate was born 1 August 1872 in Hunstanton, Norfolk.

[2] His paintings of ducks and other birds in Patterson 1904 (for instance "The Stricken Mallard") were internationally renowned.

[3] Southgate died in 1916, whilst serving in the Army during the First World War in France, aged 43 years.

Frontispiece of Notes of an East Coast Naturalist , showing shovelers and bearded tit