Ernest Dade

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| birth_name = Ernest Frederick Dade

| birth_date = 1868

| birth_place = Kensington, England

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Ernest Frederick Dade (1868–1935),Sources vary; others give 1864–1936{{Art UK bio|retrieved=29 May 2013|nocount=1|ref=1}}England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1936. "DADE Ernest of 16 Langford-place St. John's Wood Middlesex died 3 November 1935 Administration York 13 November to Helen Maude Dade widow. Effects £565 14s. 6d." later known as Ernst Dade, was an English painter, specialising in coastal and maritime subjects, and maker of model ships. He was a member of the Staithes group, based in the North Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes.

Early life

Dade was born in Kensington, England,{{cite web|url=http://www.tbrj.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh000001.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2etbrj%2eco%2euk%2facatalog%2fsearch%2ehtml&WD=dade&PN=copy_of_Ernest_Dade_1864_1935%2ehtml%23a235#a235|title=Ernest Dade – Staithes Group Artist|access-date=29 May 2013}}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Dade's father, Frederick Dade (1836–1874),{{cite web|url=https://www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/ChichesterPhotgrsCE.htm|title=Professional Photographers in Chichester|access-date=30 May 2013}} was a photographer, married to Matilda Toye (1835–1919) in 1859. Ernest had two older sisters and the family moved to Scarborough early in Ernest's life. He later had another two sisters and three brothers, one of whom, the youngest, Fred (1874–1908), was also a maritime artist.

His first job was as a deck-hand on the American yacht, Dauntless. In 1885–1886, he studied at Scarborough School of Art, under Albert Strange.{{cite web|url=https://www.albertstrange.org/?p=154|title=Albert's Pupils|last=Watts|first=Tony|date=10 March 2007|publisher=The Albert Strange Association|access-date=30 May 2013}} From the age of twenty he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. He later studied fresco and mural painting in the South of France.

Career

File:Ernest Dade - On the Fishing Grounds.jpg

Dade and Nelson Dawson rented studios at Manresa Road, Chelsea. By 1890, he was living at 8 West Bank, Seamer Road, Scarborough. In 1901, he became a founder member of the Staithes Art Club. After visiting Holland he began to use the first name 'Ernst'.

He exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, the New English Art Club (of which he became a member in 1887{{cite web|url=https://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/biog/display/?bid=Dade_Ern|title=The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler|access-date=30 May 2013}}), the Royal Academy (from 1887 to 1901), the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, the Walker Art Gallery and the Staithes Art Club.

Personal life

Dade married Maud Alderson-Smith in St Martins Church, Scarborough in 1913. 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.

He was a member of the Society for Nautical Research.The Mariner's Mirror, Volume 18, Issue 4, 1932 and wrote articles about boats and sailing, for their quarterly journal, The Mariner's Mirror.{{cite web|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/|title=T and F|access-date=30 May 2013}} – deep linking not possible; search for "Dade". He was also a founder member and first Captain of the Scarborough Sailing Club, in 1895.

Dade died in London on 3 November 1935, and was survived by Maud.

Legacy

File:Ernest Dade - Sketch of small sailing craft and a square-rigger.jpg ]]

Institutions holding his work include the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum (which has his sketchbooks,{{cite web|url=http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections.html#!csearch;authority=agent-142291;makerReference=agent-142291|title=Collections – National Maritime Museum|access-date=29 May 2013}} and those of his brother Fred), Rotherham, Scarborough, and Whitby art galleries and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.{{cite web|url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/1122/|title=The Pool, London, (1886) by Ernst Dade|publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales|access-date=29 May 2013}}

Bibliography

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= Books =

{{cite book|last=Dade|first=Ernest|author-mask=2|title=Sail and Oar|year=1933|publisher=J M Dent and Sons Limited}}
{{cite book|last=Dade|first=Ernest|author-mask=2|title=Sail and Oar|year=1988|publisher=Ipswich Book Company|isbn=978-1871696004}} (Facsimile edition, with a Preface By Peter F. Anson){{cite web|url=http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookinfo.phtml?o=redboo&bnr=006986|title=Sail and Oar: A Hundred Pictures By Ernest Dade|access-date=30 May 2013}}

= Articles =

{{cite journal|last=Dade|first=Ernest|author-mask=2|date=January 1932|title=Trawling Under Sail on the North East Coast|journal=The Mariner's Mirror|volume=18|issue=4|pages=363–374|doi=10.1080/00253359.1932.10655670}} {{subscription required}}
{{cite journal|last=Dade|first=Ernest|author-mask=2|date=January 1933|title=Old Yorkshire Yawls|journal=The Mariner's Mirror|volume=19|issue=2|pages=182–195|doi=10.1080/00253359.1933.10655697}} {{subscription required}}
{{cite journal|last=Dade|first=Ernest|author-mask=2|date=January 1934|title=The Cobbles|journal=The Mariner's Mirror|volume=20|issue=2|pages=199–207|doi=10.1080/00253359.1934.10655749}} {{subscription required}}