DICKSEE, SIR FRANCIS BERNARD English painter, born in London on Nov. 27, 1853, son of Thomas Dicksee, artist, was President of the Royal Academy in 1924. He belongs to the older academic school, whose aim was to express poetic sentiments in a realistic pictorial form. His pictures are painted with extreme sensibility and his execution is always skilful and competent. Two of his principal works were bought under the Chantrey bequest for the Tate gallery: "Harmony" (1877) and "The Two Crowns" (1900). He died Oct. 17, 1928.