Edmund Caldwell

Binding from Jock of the Bushveld (1907), illustration by Edmund Caldwell

Edmund Caldwell (born December 21, 1852 in Canterbury , Kent , † March 28, 1930 in London ) was a British painter , illustrator , sculptor and etcher . He was best known for his animal watercolors and landscapes , but his specialty was domestic dogs .

Life

Gourmets from African Nature Notes and Reminiscences (1908)

Caldwell was the eldest child of the glass painter Samuel Caldwell and the brother of the children's author Mary Tourtel (1874-1948), who was best known as the creator of the comic book Rupert Bear . He studied painting with Thomas Sidney Cooper and received a scholarship to the West London School of Art. He later worked under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris .

Caldwell spent most of his career in London , where he exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1880 and there won a prize for his painting Run to Ground in 1884 . He has also had exhibitions in the Suffolk Street galleries and the New Watercolor Society . In 1887 he worked in Swanley in Kent, in 1890 in Guildford in Surrey and from 1902 to 1925 in Hampstead , London.

Caldwell has illustrated a number of books on wildlife , including African Nature Notes and Reminiscences (1908) by Frederick Courteney Selous , Animals of Africa (1909) by Henry Anderson Bryden , Lives of the Fur Folk (1910) by Maud Doria Haviland, and for Hunting books such as Hunting Camps in Wood and Wilderness (1910) by Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard or The Gun at Home and Abroad (1912) by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant . However, Caldwell's best-known work is the illustration for the children's novel Jock of the Bushveld by the South African author James Percy FitzPatrick from 1907, for which he made numerous black and white plates and sketches. Fitzpatrick invited Caldwell to South Africa , where he drew on location in the wilderness. The William Fehr Collection in the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town , South Africa has numerous watercolors by Caldwell.

In addition to book illustrations, Caldwell also made drawings for magazines, including Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News , and sculptures.

literature

• Dirk J. Potgieter (Ed.): Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Capetown , Vol. 2: Bac-Cal , 1970, p. 656
• Jane Meiring, Frank R. Bradlow. Dale Kenmuir: Jock: The Art of Edmund Caldwell , Frank Read Press, Mazoe Rhodesia, 1978
• Jane Meiring, Frank R. Bradlow. Dale Kenmuir: The Art of Edmund Caldwell , Vol. II, Frank Read Press, Mazoe Zimbawe, 1982
• Edmund Caldwell In: Country Life. Royal Show and Agriculture Number , Vol. 172, July 22, 1982, p. 283
• Brigid Peppin, Lucy Micklethwait: Dictionary of British Book illustrators: The Twentieth Century John Murray, London 1983, ISBN 0-7195-3985-4 , pp. 65-66

Web links

• Works at ArtNet
• Literature by and about Edmund Caldwell in the WorldCat bibliographic database