Francis Prout Mahony, also known as Frank Mahony (4 December 1862 – 28 June 1916), was an Australian painter, watercolorist and illustrator. Although christened "Francis Mahony", he later added "Prout" and usually signed his work as "Frank P. Mahony".[1] It is apparently unknown why he chose to add "Prout".[2]
- ^ Andrews, B. G. (1896). "Francis (Frank) Mahony (1862–1916)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 10. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2 October 2009.
- ^ Fred J. Bloomfield writes in the Bulletin:
Fred J. Bloomfield (14 August 1924), "Francis Prout Mahony (14 August 1924)", The Bulletin, 45 (2322), John Haynes and J. F. Archibald: 5, ISSN 0007-4039Mahony's second name of "Prout" was self-assumed. He adopted it because the Rev. Francis Mahony (the “Oliver Yorke” of Fraser's Magazine) had chosen the sobriquet of "Father Prout" for the versified jeux d'esprit afterwards collected as his "Reliques".