Frank Coombs (artist)

Frank Mundy Coombs (30 July 1906 - 15 April 1941) was an Englis painter, architect and art dealer.

Coombs was born in Radstock, the son of Frank and Louisa Isabel Coombs, of Bath, Somerset.

He studied art at King's School, Bruton under Arthur Jenkins. He qualified as an architect and worked at the Hampshire County Council. For 2 years he lived in the island of Sark and there met Ala Storey.

In the 1930s he worked at the Storran Gallery, a commercial art gallery in London. Together with painter Eardley Knollys and Ala Storey, Coombs organised a remarkable series of exhibitions there, featuring works by Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani and Maurice Utrillo, as well as by leading British artists including Glyn Philpot.

At the outbreak of WWII, Coombs joined the Royal Navy and was killed during the Belfast Blitz by enemy action aged only 35 on 15 April 1941. He is buried in the Royal Navy plot at Belfast City Cemetery.

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