Frank Henry Bartels (18 February 1867 – 18 May 1895) was an Australian pen-and-ink artist and engraver.

History

Bartels was born in Adelaide, a son of German-born merchant Adolph Bartels (1819–1878), best known as mayor of Adelaide 1871–1873, and his second wife Anna Augusta Bartels, née Weidenbach (died 1910). He was educated at the school conducted by Adolph Leschen, and at Whinham College.[1]

An architect by training, he was apprenticed to the firm of Wright, Reed and Beaver, but finding no prospect of employment, began working as a clerk. He had no formal art tuition.[2]

He established a studio at the family home in Hurtle Square, where public attention was drawn to his painstaking etchings and watercolors.[3] Later that year he exhibited 22 pen-and-ink sketches at E. S. Wigg's stationery shop which were praised for their design and execution, comparing some with the work of Mortimer Menpes at the Art Gallery.[4] In 1893 he exhibited several pen-and-ink sketches with the Adelaide Easel Club that were admired, and late that year exhibited, at Fritz and Bernard's Art Palace, 62 Rundle Street, 92 views of South Australian scenery, including several watercolors.[5] In 1894 his painting The Eagle on the Hill was recommended as an addition to the Colonial section of the Art Gallery.[6]

Certificates

Bartels was much in demand for creating decorated addresses and certificates for presentation at official ceremonies, on account of the beauty and precision of his artwork and illuminated lettering. Examples include:

Death

Bartels was caught up in the typhoid epidemic of 1895 and died at his home, Winchester Street, Malvern. His funeral was well-attended.[1]

Family

Bartels married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jeffery[lower-alpha 1] on 17 June 1892.[14] They had two daughters, both educated at Dryburgh House.[15]

  • Doris Eileen "Patsy" Bartels (20 June 1893 – ) married Ian Basil Pender on 7 December 1921. Pender was a medical doctor, later of Murrumbeena, Victoria.[16]
  • Pauline Berkeley "Pauli" Bartels (1894– ) married Rudolph "Rudi" Bronner in England on 7 April 1917.
  • Elizabeth Pauline Berkeley Bronner (1919– ) married Donald Malcolm Reid in Sydney on 6 August 1940.

Notes

  1. ↑ In 1907 Elizabeth Bartels and Edith M. Walmsley, founded "Quambi", a rest home and private hospital on Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide, in the building previously home of E. P. Nesbit's North Adelaide Educational Institution. The partnership was dissolved in 1907 and Bartels continued as principal.[11] Her mother, Eliza Jeffery, née Berkeley, died there on 4 January 1914.[12] In October 1919 "Quambi" reloated to 190 South Terrace and the Pennington Terrace premises had various tenants[13] before becoming part of the Memorial Hospital. Bartels remained connected with the hospital as matron until 1942 and was contributing to patriotic causes in 1943 but no later history has been found.

Five works by Bartels (listed as Frank C. Bartels) held by A.G.S.A.

References

  1. 1 2 "The Late Mr F. H. Bartels". South Australian Register. Vol. LX, no. 15, 137. South Australia. 20 May 1895. p. 6. Retrieved 22 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. 1 2 "Presentation to Sir Isaac Pitman, Inventor of Phonographic Shorthand". The Pictorial Australian. Vol. XX, no. 7. South Australia. 1 July 1894. p. 1. Retrieved 21 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "The Advertiser Wednesday, May 11, 1892". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. XXXIV, no. 10472. South Australia. 11 May 1892. p. 4. Retrieved 21 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "Colonial Art". South Australian Register. Vol. LVII, no. 14, 387. South Australia. 22 December 1892. p. 5. Retrieved 21 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Local Art". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. XXXVI, no. 10965. South Australia. 8 December 1893. p. 5. Retrieved 21 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "A Colonial Section to Our National Art Gallery". South Australian Register. Vol. LIX, no. 14, 828. South Australia. 23 May 1894. p. 6. Retrieved 22 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "Literary Societies' Union". South Australian Register. Vol. LX, no. 15, 033. South Australia. 18 January 1895. p. 7. Retrieved 22 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "The Exhibition". South Australian Register. Vol. LX, no. 15, 091. South Australia. 27 March 1895. p. 6. Retrieved 22 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "Home for Incurables". South Australian Register. Vol. LX, no. 15, 093. South Australia. 29 March 1895. p. 3. Retrieved 22 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia. Robert Tracey Wylde came back to SA, dying at Semaphore in November 1903.
  10. ↑ "Obituary". Evening Journal (Adelaide). Vol. XXVII, no. 7662. South Australia. 18 May 1895. p. 4. Retrieved 22 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ↑ "Advertising". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. L, no. 15, 272. South Australia. 28 September 1907. p. 2. Retrieved 22 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ↑ "Family Notices". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. LVI, no. 17, 231. South Australia. 7 January 1914. p. 14. Retrieved 22 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ↑ "College for Women". The News (Adelaide). Vol. IV, no. 555. South Australia. 5 May 1925. p. 1. Retrieved 22 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  14. ↑ "Social Sparks". Quiz and The Lantern. Vol. III, no. 147. South Australia. 17 June 1892. p. 10. Retrieved 22 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ↑ "When We Were Girls Together". The News (Adelaide). Vol. XXVI, no. 3, 926. South Australia. 20 February 1936. p. 13. Retrieved 12 March 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  16. ↑ "Advertising". The Age. No. 29, 697. Victoria, Australia. 3 July 1950. p. 7. Retrieved 22 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
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