Douglas Fry
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Robert Douglas Fry[1] (September 1872 – 9 July 1911)[citation needed] was an English Australian painter and illustrator, known for his paintings of animals, and especially horses.
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Biography
Douglas Fry was born at Ipswich, Suffolk, England, son of Edward Fry, a corn and seed merchant, and his wife Annette née Ransome.[citation needed] His brother, Edward Ransome Fry, was also an artist, and his sister Constance Emily Fry married John Barlow Wood (1862–1949) a watercolour landscape artist.[citation needed]
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Fry was a keen hunter, described by a contemporary as a "tall, lean, monosyllbic Englishman who had an intensely conservative mind and a pronounced Oxford accent, and looked as if he had been poured into his riding pants and boots (which he always wore)". He was a keen horseman and is said to have taught Norman Lindsay to ride.[2]
