Ernest Dade

{{short description|English painter}} {{Use British English|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Ernest Dade | honorific_suffix = | image =  | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Ernest Frederick Dade | birth_date = 1868<ref name="dates" /> | birth_place = Kensington, England | death_date = {{Death date|df=yes|1935|11|03}}<ref name="dates" /> | death_place = London, England | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | monuments = | other_names = Ernst Dade | education = | alma_mater = {{lang|fr|Académie Julian}} | occupation = {{Plainlist| * Painter * Model-maker }} | notable_works = | style = | spouse = | children = | parents = | awards = }}

'''Ernest Frederick Dade''' (1868–1935),<ref name="dates">Sources vary; others give 1864–1936</ref><ref name="YP">{{Art UK bio|retrieved=29 May 2013|nocount=1|ref=1}}</ref><ref name=probcal>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."</ref> later known as '''Ernst Dade''', was an English painter,<ref name="YP" /> specialising in coastal and maritime subjects,<ref name="YP" /> and maker of model ships.<ref name="tbrj" /> He was a member of the Staithes group, based in the North Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes.<ref name="tbrj" />

== Early life ==

Dade was born in Kensington, England,<ref name="tbrj">{{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 }}</ref> Dade's father, Frederick Dade (1836–1874),<ref name="PhS">{{cite web|url=https://www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/ChichesterPhotgrsCE.htm|title=Professional Photographers in Chichester|access-date=30 May 2013}}</ref> was a photographer,<ref name="PhS" /> married to Matilda Toye (1835–1919) in 1859.<ref name="PhS" /> Ernest had two older sisters and the family moved to Scarborough early in Ernest's life.<ref name="tbrj" /> He later had another two sisters and three brothers,<ref name="PhS" /> one of whom, the youngest, Fred (1874–1908), was also a maritime artist.<ref name="PhS" />

His first job was as a deck-hand on the American yacht, ''Dauntless''.<ref name="tbrj" /> In 1885–1886, he studied at Scarborough School of Art, under Albert Strange.<ref name="Watts">{{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}}</ref> From the age of twenty he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris.<ref name="tbrj" /> He later studied fresco and mural painting in the South of France.<ref name="tbrj" />

== Career ==

thumb|''On the Fishing Grounds''

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

He exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists,<ref name="tbrj" /> the New English Art Club (of which he became a member in 1887<ref name="Gla">{{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}}</ref>), the Royal Academy (from 1887 to 1901),<ref name="Gla" /> the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours,<ref name="tbrj" /> the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers,<ref name="Gla" /> the Walker Art Gallery<ref name="tbrj" /> and the Staithes Art Club.<ref name="tbrj" />

== Personal life ==

Dade married Maud Alderson-Smith in St Martins Church, Scarborough in 1913.<ref name="Watts" /> 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.<ref name="Watts" />

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

Dade died in London on 3 November 1935,<ref name=probcal/><ref name="Watts" /> and was survived by Maud.<ref name=probcal/>

== Legacy ==

[[File:Ernest Dade - Sketch of small sailing craft and a square-rigger.jpg|thumb|upright|Sketch of small sailing craft and a square-rigger, from one of Dade's sketchbooks, at the National Maritime Museum ]]

Institutions holding his work include the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum (which has his sketchbooks,<ref name="NMM">{{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}}</ref> and those of his brother Fred<ref name="PhS" />), Rotherham, Scarborough, and Whitby art galleries<ref name="tbrj" /> and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.<ref name="AGNSW">{{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}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==

thumb|upright|Book jacket from ''Sail and Oar''

=== 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)<ref name="Antiq">{{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}}</ref>

=== 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}}

=== Further reading ===

* {{cite book |author=Peter Phillips |title=The Staithes group |publisher=Phillips & Sons |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-9521107-0-5 }}

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links == {{Commons category|Ernest Dade}} * {{Art UK bio}}

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