Frank Bramley RA is held by the Tate Gallery, London after having been purchased for the nation by the Chantrey Bequest and is one of Bramley's most favored works. Praised by the Royal Academy, Penlee House also appreciate this Bramley work: "The painting’s strong emotional and narrative content, together with its aesthetic appeal and tonal harmony, make this one of the most admired Newlyn School works to this day." The young grieving woman in the painting, artist model Effie Reynolds.
Bramley was one of the founders of the New English Art Club, but left the organization after having received condemning comments from Walter Sickert.
In 1894 Bramley became an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) and in 1911 he became a Royal Academician (RA). He was also a gold medal winner at the Paris Salon.
Selected paintings include:
Self portrait, 1897, oil on canvas
Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet, National Portrait Gallery, London
Everyone Has His Own Tale, 1885, oil on canvas
Domino!, 1886, oil on canvas
Eyes and No Eyes, 1887, etching
Delicious Solitude, 1909, oil on canvas
Borgerhout Anvers, oil on canvas
Flower Study, oil on canvas
Friends - The Artist's Wife Katherine And Her Dog, oil on canvas
Helen Chalmers, 1908

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