(1865 - 1936)
Portraitist Frederick Howard Michael was born in Halifax in Yorkshire, the son of a Baptist Minister. By the time of the 1881 census records he was 16 years old, living with his family in Halifax, and studying as an ‘art pupil’. He later moved to Stamford Bridge Studios, Fulham, where he lived and worked from at least 1891 to 1899. Michael exhibited twelve works at the Royal Academy and one at the Royal Society of British Artists in London from 1892 to 1929. In 1901, aged 35, he was living with antique dealer Douglas Falcke and his family in Chelsea. That year, he exhibited a portrait of Mrs Douglas Falcke at the Academy. Michael had moved to Kensington by the time of his death in 1936. His property passed to his younger sister, Ethilda.
