[Whitby Fishermen on the pier fence]

Creator

British Photographer · 1853–1941

"The essence of art is to conceal art," wrote Frank Meadows Sutcliffe. The son of Thomas Sutcliffe, a well-regarded painter who disdained photography as an art form, Sutcliffe had aspired to become a painter but switched to photography upon his father's death. He originally opened a studio in Tunbridge Wells, then returned to his native Whitby in 1876. There he ran a commercial portrait studio, ph