"Martini (1773-1847) in 1829. In 1717 Giles Jacob published his bawdy parody, ""The Rape of the Smock"", the plot of which turns on voyeurism and enforced seduction, building on erotic undertones present in Pope's poem which were to be taken up by its illustrators, and reached an apotheosis in Aubrey Beardsley's work. The 1714 edition of ""The Rape of the Lock"" and those that followed from Lintot's press had come with six woodcuts designed by Louis Du Guernier. Although the work of this artist has been described as unimaginative, he goes beyond his literal brief in making Belinda sleep in"
"2015-12-18). That drawing by Lock was later reformatted and published in 1844 by John William Laird, bearing the title ""The Bridal Morn (Queen Victoria; Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha)"" is in The National Portrait Gallery collection, London, (Accessed 2016-02-17). Another of Lock's drawings, a portrait entitled ""The Fair Domino"", engraved and printed by T. W. Huffman in 1844, is also in the British Museum collection (Accessed 2015-12-18). In 1845, Lock worked in Derbyshire and Staffordshire as an illustrator of antiquities under Thomas Bateman, a prominent Derbyshire archaeologist and borrow digger. Lock's work assignment with Bateman was likely arranged through Lock's uncle,"
"the paintings now in the Suffolk collection and their ilk ""Artistically, they are a dead end, but they have a strange and fascinating splendour."" The deaths of Hilliard, Larkin, and fellow-portraitist Robert Peake the Elder in 1619 mark the end of this insular tradition in British art. William Larkin (painter) William Larkin (early 1580s – 1619) was an English painter active from 1609 until his death in 1619, known for his iconic portraits of members of the court of James I of England which capture in brilliant detail the opulent layering of textiles, embroidery, lace, and jewellery characteristic of fashion"
"by Newton Newton died of typhus at the age of 21. ) Richard Newton (caricaturist) Richard Newton (London, 19 May 1777 – 8 December 1798, Covent Garden, London ) was an English caricaturist, miniaturist and book illustrator . This short-lived but brilliant 18th-century artist published his first caricature at thirteen. His work included definitive caricatures expressing the English prejudice of the Scots as lean and hungry opportunists. He worked for radical publisher William Holland, producing powerful anti-slavery works among his output, as well as ""rude assaults"" against Napoleon and the Royal Family. Newton minded Holland's shop when Holland was imprisoned"
"the second volume. Besides these works he published ""Six Views of Blenheim, Oxfordshire"", (1823); ""Graphical Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey"", (1824); and ""An Account of the Deep-Dene in Surrey, the seat of Thomas Hope, Esq."", (1826). Many other works contain his pen and pencil illustrations. John Preston Neale John Preston Neale (1780–1847) was an English architectural and landscape draughtsman. Much of his work was drawn, although he produced the occasional watercolour or oil painting. His drawings were used on a regular basis by engravers. A major work, the ""Views of the seats, Mansions, Castles, etc. of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England,"
"Richard Newton (caricaturist) Richard Newton (London, 19 May 1777 – 8 December 1798, Covent Garden, London ) was an English caricaturist, miniaturist and book illustrator . This short-lived but brilliant 18th-century artist published his first caricature at thirteen. His work included definitive caricatures expressing the English prejudice of the Scots as lean and hungry opportunists. He worked for radical publisher William Holland, producing powerful anti-slavery works among his output, as well as ""rude assaults"" against Napoleon and the Royal Family. Newton minded Holland's shop when Holland was imprisoned for sedition during 1793–94. His watercolour (now in the British Museum )"
"William Hogarth William Hogarth FRSA (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called ""modern moral subjects"", perhaps best known being his moral series ""A Harlot's Progress"", ""A Rake's Progress"" and ""Marriage A-la-Mode"". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as ""Hogarthian"". Hogarth was born in London to a lower middle-class family. In his youth he took up an apprenticeship where he specialised in engraving."
"John Martin (painter) John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator. He was celebrated for his typically vast and melodramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions, populated with minute figures placed in imposing landscapes. Martin's paintings, and the engravings made from them, enjoyed great success with the general publicin 1821 Thomas Lawrence referred to him as ""the most popular painter of his day""but were lambasted by John Ruskin and other critics. Martin was born in July 1789, in a one-room cottage, at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham in Northumberland, the fourth"
"Reformation""; as well as many book-titles and frontispieces. A few mezzotint portraits of noblemen bear White's name as the publisher, and are assumed to have been executed by him. A portrait of White was engraved by W. H. Worthington for Ralph Nicholson Wornum's edition of Horace Walpole's ""Anecdotes"". White was engraver for Andrew Snape's ""The Anatomy of an Horse"" first published in 1683. The images were taken from earlier woodcuts by Carlo Ruini. Robert White (engraver) Robert White (1645–1703) was an English draughtsman and engraver. A Londoner, he was a pupil of David Loggan, and became a leading portrait engraver."
"David Henry Friston David Henry Friston (1820–1906) was a British illustrator and figure painter in the Victorian Era. He is best remembered as the creator of the first illustrations of Sherlock Holmes in 1887, as well as his illustrations of the female vampire story ""Carmilla"" (1872). He is also remembered for his illustrations accompanying reviews of Gilbert and Sullivan operas and plays of W. S. Gilbert in ""The Illustrated London News"" and the ""Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News"" in the 1870s and 1880s. Friston produced illustrations and artworks from the 1850s to the late 1880s. His professional career appears to"
"imitation of copper-plate, the large block of the ""Assassination of L. S. Dentatus"". This was probably the then most ambitious block which had been cut in England. Harvey switched to design, after the death of John Thurston, the then leading wood designer in London. One of his earliest works is his illustrations for Alexander Henderson's ""History of Ancient and Modern Wines"" in 1824. His masterpieces are his illustrations to ""Northcote's Fables"" (1823–33) and to E. W. Lane's ""The Arabian Nights' Entertainments"" (1838–40). Harvey is buried in Richmond Cemetery. William Harvey (artist) William Harvey (13 July 1796 – 1866) was an"
"William Larkin (painter) William Larkin (early 1580s – 1619) was an English painter active from 1609 until his death in 1619, known for his iconic portraits of members of the court of James I of England which capture in brilliant detail the opulent layering of textiles, embroidery, lace, and jewellery characteristic of fashion in the Jacobean era, as well as representing numerous fine examples of oriental carpets in Renaissance painting. Larkin was born in London in the early 1580s, and lived in the parishes of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, Holborn, and St Anne Blackfriars. He became a freeman of the Worshipful Company"
"2004 for $220,800. The two-handed clasp that Paget shows Holmes using on Moriarty in the illustration was used by Holmes for the same scene in the 2011 film """", though the specific description of the fight is never actually mentioned in the book. Sidney Paget Sidney Edward Paget () (4 October 1860 – 28 January 1908) was a British illustrator of the Victorian era, best known for his illustrations that accompanied Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in ""The Strand"" magazine. Sidney Paget was the fifth of nine children born to Robert Paget, the vestry clerk of St. James and"
"special exhibitions to mark the 250th anniversary of his death. William Hogarth William Hogarth FRSA (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called ""modern moral subjects"", perhaps best known being his moral series ""A Harlot's Progress"", ""A Rake's Progress"" and ""Marriage A-la-Mode"". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as ""Hogarthian"". Hogarth was born in London to a lower middle-class family. In his youth"
"Esqr Keeper of His Majesties Lions in the Tower’. On 25 October 1742 (as a parishioner of St George's, Hanover Square, London) he married Mary Ann Regnier. John Shackleton John Shackleton (? - 14 or 16 March 1767, London) was a British painter and draughtsman who produced history paintings and portraits. His parents and origins are unknown. Shackleton painted several surviving portraits, for example of Henry Pelham (National Portrait Gallery), William Windham (1717–1761; now at Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk), and of John Bristowe, steward to the first duke of Newcastle (now in the Reitlinger Museum of Fine Art, Maidenhead). From 1749"
"and Thomas Phillips (1770-1845). Also of note are Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745) and his pupil (and defiant son-in-law) Thomas Hudson (1701-1779). Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) was well known for his candlelight pictures; George Stubbs (1724-1806) and, later, Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) for their animal paintings. By the end of the century, the English swagger portrait was much admired abroad. London's William Blake (1757-1827) produced a diverse and visionary body of work defying straightforward classification; critic Jonathan Jones regards him as ""far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced"". Blake's artist friends included neoclassicist John Flaxman (1755-1826), and Thomas"
"Sidney Paget Sidney Edward Paget () (4 October 1860 – 28 January 1908) was a British illustrator of the Victorian era, best known for his illustrations that accompanied Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in ""The Strand"" magazine. Sidney Paget was the fifth of nine children born to Robert Paget, the vestry clerk of St. James and St. John in Clerkenwell and Martha Paget (née Clarke), a music professor. In 1881 Paget entered the Royal Academy Schools. Here he befriended Alfred Morris Butler, an architecture student who may have become the model for Paget's illustrations of Dr. John Watson. Between"
"drapery, wherein he exceeded most of his . Laroon is best known for the drawings he made of ""The Cryes of London"", which were engraved by John Savage, and published by Pierce Tempest. He also drew the illustrations for 'The Art of Defence', a fencing manual by William Elder published in 1699 and the procession at the coronation of William III and Mary in 1689. He painted portraits of Queen Mary (engraved in mezzotint by Robert Williams), Caius Gabriel Cibber the sculptor, and others. Some drawings by him entered the collection of the British Museum. He married the daughter of"
"he suffered a heart attack whilst still at sea. When his ship docked, Aldin was rushed to the London Clinic but could not be saved. Cecil Aldin Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, (28 April 1870 – 6 January 1935), was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life. Aldin executed village scenes and rural buildings in chalk, pencil and also wash sketching. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and a Master of Fox Hounds, and many of his pictures illustrated hunting. Aldin's early influences included Randolph Caldecott and John Leech. Born in"
"""Mr. Twiddle did most of his work in black-and-white and water-colour. He exhibited paintings in oils at the Royal Academy and was well known for his mural paintings, panels and pastels."" Arthur Twidle Arthur Twidle (?1865 to 26 April 1936) was an English illustrator and artist best known for his illustrations of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books. Born in Rotherhithe, Surrey, in 1865, Arthur Twidle was the son of Alfred Twidle (a journeyman cooper and his wife Rachel (née Smith), who had married in 1855. In 1881, following the death of his mother,Twidle was living with an uncle and"
"John Atkinson Grimshaw John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was an English Victorian-era artist who has been called a ""remarkable and imaginative painter"" best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes Today, he is considered one of the most renowned painters of the Victorian era, as well as one of the best and most accomplished nightscape, and townscape, artists of all time. Grimshaw's accuracy and drive for realism was criticised by some contemporaries, with one critic claiming that his paintings appeared to ‘showed no marks of handling or brushwork’, adding that ‘not a few artists"
"Joseph Nutting Joseph Nutting (1660–1722) was an English engraver, working in London. He is known for his portraits, often used as book frontispieces. He was apprenticed to John Savage. Nutting's style resembled that of Robert White. His subjects included Mary Capell, Duchess of Beaufort, after Robert Walker; Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey; John Locke, after Sylvester Brownover; Thomas Greenhill, after Thomas Murray, prefixed to his ""Art of Embalming"", 1705; Aaron Hill the poet, 1705; Sir Bartholomew Shower; Sir John Cheke; James Bonnell; the Rev. Matthew Mead; William Elder, the engraver; and the family of Rawlinson of Cark, five ovals on one"
"Friston illustrated the work of the American Mary Noailles Murfree, writing as Charles Egbert Craddock. David Henry Friston David Henry Friston (1820–1906) was a British illustrator and figure painter in the Victorian Era. He is best remembered as the creator of the first illustrations of Sherlock Holmes in 1887, as well as his illustrations of the female vampire story ""Carmilla"" (1872). He is also remembered for his illustrations accompanying reviews of Gilbert and Sullivan operas and plays of W. S. Gilbert in ""The Illustrated London News"" and the ""Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News"" in the 1870s and 1880s. Friston produced"
"1847 of ""paralysis"". Two poetical illustrations of Howard's works were written by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. The first, of ""The Hours"", in her Poetical Catalogue of Paintings in The Literary Gazette (1823), and the second, of ""Fairies on the Sea Shore"" in her Poetical Catalogue of Modern Paintings in her 1825 volume ""The Troubadour; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches"", this latter poem reappearing in ""The Cabinet of Modern Art, 1836"" accompanied by an engraving (by Edward Goodall). Henry Howard (artist) Henry Howard RA (31 January 1769 – 5 October 1847) was an early 19th-century British portrait and history painter. He"
"truth of the depiction. Lord Leverhulme was so upset with his portrait that he cut out the head (since only that part of the image could easily be hidden in his vault) but when the remainder of the picture was returned by error to John there was an international outcry over the desecration. By the 1920s John was Britain's leading portrait painter. John painted many distinguished contemporaries, including T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Lady Gregory, Tallulah Bankhead, George Bernard Shaw, the cellist Guilhermina Suggia, the Marchesa Casati and Elizabeth Bibesco. Perhaps his most famous portrait"
"posthumous reputation. Charles Alfred Stothard Charles Alfred Stothard (5 July 1786 – 28 May 1821) was an English antiquarian draughtsman, with a special interest in monumental effigies. Stothard was born in London, the son of the painter, Thomas Stothard. He was educated at a school run by a Mr Dearne, and then became a private pupil of the Rev Robert Burnside. He studied at the Royal Academy from 1807, and began his first historical picture, the ""Death of Richard II in Pomfret Castle"" three years later. His depiction of the king was based closely on the effigy on his tomb"
"Even from an early age, the painter David Allan (1744–1796) showed artistic talent, being expelled from school for caricaturing a master. Known as ""the Scottish Hogarth"", he illustrated ""The Gentle Shepherd"" by Allan Ramsay and importantly much of Robert Burns' work. His grave was originally unmarked. The headstone was erected in 1874, almost 80 years after his death, by the Royal Scottish Academy, and includes a profile medallion insert of his likeness by John Hutchison. Historian and philosopher David Hume (1711–1776), author of ""Treatise of Human Nature"", was a household name across Europe in the 18th century, and a critical"
"Robert Seymour (illustrator) Robert Seymour (1798 – 20 April 1836) was a British illustrator. Seymour is known for his illustrations of the works of Charles Dickens and for his caricatures. Seymour was born in Somerset, England in 1798, the second son of Henry Seymour and Elizabeth Bishop. Soon after moving to London Henry Seymour died, leaving his wife, two sons and daughter impoverished. In 1827 his mother died, and Seymour married his cousin Jane Holmes, having two children, Robert and Jane. After realizing their kids had been born with 7 fingers and 3 missing chromosomes, Jane Holmes resulted to escorting"
"excelled in engraving figures and interiors, but was less successful in outdoor scenes. The 'Cave of Despair,' after Thurston, in William Savage's ""Practical Hints on Decorative Printing"", 1822, is generally considered his best plate, and shows his skill both in 'white' and 'black' line. Amongst the works illustrated in whole or in part by him were edition of David Hume's ""The History of England"" published by Wallis and Scholey, 1804–10; Robert Bloomfield's ""Wild Flowers"", 1806; and poems by George Marshall, 1812. He had many pupils, including John Thompson (1785–1866). The work of Branston and Thompson can be compared in the"
"Charles Lock Eastlake Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (17 November 1793 – 24 December 1865) was a British painter, gallery director, collector and writer of the early 19th century. Eastlake was born in Plymouth, Devon, the fourth son of an Admiralty lawyer. He was educated at local grammar schools in Plymouth and, briefly, at Charterhouse (then still in London). He was committed to becoming a painter, and in 1809 he became the first pupil of Benjamin Haydon and a student at the Royal Academy schools in London — where he later exhibited. However his first exhibited work was shown at the"
"of churches, abbeys, cathedrals and castles, and Nathaniel Parker Willis described Bartlett's talent thus: ""Bartlett could select his point of view so as to bring prominently into his sketch the castle or the cathedral, which history or antiquity had allowed"". William Henry Bartlett William Henry Bartlett (March 26, 1809 – September 13, 1854) was a British artist, best known for his numerous drawings rendered into steel engravings. Bartlett was born in Kentish Town, London in 1809. He was apprenticed to John Britton (1771–1857), and became one of the foremost illustrators of topography of his generation. He travelled throughout Britain, and"
"William Henry Brooke William Henry Brooke (1772–1860) was a British artist and illustrator. He was the son of the painter Henry Brooke and a nephew of Henry Brooke, the author of ""A Fool of Quality"". He was a pupil of Samuel Drummond, and worked as a portrait painter. He exhibited portraits and figure subjects at the Royal Academy occasionally between 1810 and 1826, but is best known by his illustrations to books. He died at Chichester in 1860. As an illustrator, Brooke was influenced by Thomas Stothard, a friend. He contributed to Thomas Moore's ""Irish Melodies"", Izaak Walton's ""Compleat Angler"""
"were mainly drawn by Edwin Dalton Smith (1800–1883), a botanical artist, who was attached to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. His works include ""Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis"" (1818), ""Geraniaceae"" (five volumes) (1820–30), ""Cistineae"", ""Sweet's Hortus Britannicus"" (1826–27), ""Flora Australasica"" (1827–28) and ""British Botany"" (with H. Weddell) (1831). He died at Chelsea, London in January 1835. He was charged with receiving a batch of plants allegedly stolen from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. It was suggested that this was an attempt to frame him by an official at Kew whom Sweet had criticised. He was acquitted after a well-publicised trial. Robert"