• A highly important - and sumptuous - work of reference on Victorian painter and illustrator Frank Dicksee• A full history of Dicksee\'s life and works with a catalog raisonné, illustrating many pictures previously unpublished • Dicksee was elected to the Academy in 1891 and became President of the Royal Academy in 1924Frank Dicksee was born at a time when the first wave of Pre-Raphaelitism was beginning to make its presence felt in Britain and he inherited the romantic spirit of the movement. • A highly important - and sumptuous - work of reference on Victorian painter and illustrator Frank Dicksee• A full history of Dicksee\'s life and works with a catalog raisonné, illustrating many pictures previously unpublished • Dicksee was elected to the Academy in 1891 and became President of the Royal Academy in 1924Frank Dicksee was born at a time when the first wave of Pre-Raphaelitism was beginning to make its presence felt in Britain and he inherited the romantic spirit of the movement