- 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Dicksee - A full history of Dicksee's life and works with a catalog raisonn , illustrating many pictures previously unpublished - Dicksee was elected to the Academy in 1891 and became President of the Royal Academy in 1924 Frank Dicksee was born at a time when the first wave of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 that had been founded only a stone's throw from his childhood home. After early success with his painting of unrequited love, Harmony, he rose to be one of the most popul ..