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, Lincolnshire, he studied first at the Lincoln School of Art, then under

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at the

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in Paris (1883–1884). He lived in the Chelsea district of London and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1883 to 1916.Brian Stewart
''The Dictionary of British Portrait Painters up to 1920''
(Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1994), p. 24.Grant Waters
''Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950''
(Eastbourne, 1975), p. 303.Robin Simon
''The Portrait in Britain and America with a Biographical Dictionary of Portrait Painters, 1680–1914''
(Oxford, 1987), p. 230. In 1882 he married Allison Skipworth, then 19 years old, who went on to become an accomplished stage and screen actress. The two were very poor, and Allison Skipworth later remarked that she had gone into acting to keep from starving to death.Ruth Tildesley
"No Age Limit in Hollywood!"
''Screenland'', vol. 21, no. 6 (October 1930), p. 25. Frank Skipworth died in

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, south London, in 1929.

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