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Dec 14, 2013 · This put Ranken in the milieu of the Edwardian aesthetes. Gay photographer Baron De Meyer and his wife, Olga, became close friends. He was mentored by gay artist John Singer Sargent.
Ranken's first exhibition in 1904 at the Carfax Gallery, managed by John Fothergill and William Rothenstein, in London was well received by artists and art critics. He befriended Wilfrid de Glehn and John Singer Sargent .
His first one-man exhibition was at the Carfax Gallery there, in 1904. It was a gallery much favoured by Sargent at that time, whom in quick order, he befriended. Moving in a circle of Edwardian aesthetes, Ranken also became acquainted with the eminent artist Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn.
At the behest of his King, and on the insistence of his embittered, dissipated brother-in-law, the Duke of Westminster, he was forced to flee the country he'd only recently help to rule. His alternative was to face arrest and certain imprisonment, for being gay.
William Bruce Ellis Ranken (1881 – 1941) William Bruce Ellis Ranken was born in Edinburgh in 1881, the second son of Robert Burt Ranken, a prosperous lawyer, and his wife Mary. He was educated at Eton and The Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks.
I am currently researching the life and work of the Scottish born portrait painter, William Bruce Ellis Ranken (1881-1941), who was "a close friend of John Singer Sargent" and I am anxious to find out whether there is indeed any evidence of this friendship from any JSS correspondence or records [Evidence Found]. I should like to write to you ...
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