Honor Appleton
Cute Children's Book Illustration British Female Illustrator - Teddy Bears, 1925
Gouache, Watercolor
9 13/20 × 7 1/4 × 1 in / 24.5 × 18.4 × 2.5 cm
$ 4,000.00
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A British Female Illustrator paints a warm and fuzzy scene from a child's imagination, with ducks and teddy bears gazing at a 'Mr Willoughby's eyeglass' standing on it's edge as...
A British Female Illustrator paints a warm and fuzzy scene from a child's imagination, with ducks and teddy bears gazing at a "Mr Willoughby's eyeglass" standing on it's edge as it lays on the floor. It was done on an assignment for the children's book "Josephine Keeps School. br It is elegantly framed behind glass. Signed lower right br The video is showing light. Use the still image as a guide for color and value. br Signed and inscribed with title below mount. br Illustrated: Mrs H C Cradock, "Josephine Keeps School, br London: Blakie and Son, 1925, page 28 br Exhibited: The British Art of Illustration, 1800 - 1995, br Chris Beetles Gallery, London br Honor Charlotte Appleton (1879–1951) was a British illustrator of children's books, including The Children's Alice.[1] She had a delicate watercolour style, influenced by Kate Greenaway and others.[2] br Biography br She was born in Brighton, on the south coast of England, on 4 February 1879 and lived in nearby Hove most of her life. She studied art at the Kensington School, Frank Calderon's School of Animal Painting and the Royal Academy of Arts. br Appleton illustrated more than 150 books in the course of her career, starting first with children's stories and later moving to literary classics. They included the fairytales of Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen, William Blake's Songs of Innocence and a retold version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Children's Alice. br Her watercolours were exhibited at the Royal Academy, and there was a memorial exhibition of her work at Hove Library in 1952.