Richard Doyle (Illustrator)
Richard Doyle (pseudonym: "Dick Kitcat"; born September 18, 1824 in London ; † December 10, 1883 ibid) was an English illustrator , caricaturist and painter .
life and work
Richard Doyle was the second son of the portrait painter and caricaturist John Doyle . Richard Doyle made comical illustrations of Homer when he was twelve . At the age of sixteen he began to write a diary that contained pen drawings and was only published posthumously. In 1840 he and John Leech provided several illustrations for WH Maxwell's novel Hector O'Halloran . In the following years he worked with Charles Dickens , William Makepeace Thackeray and John Ruskin ( The King of the Golden River , 1851), among others , preferring woodcuts and steel engravings .
From 1843 he made drawings for the punch , initially decorations, later the title page, which was still used until 1954, and numerous caricatures. In 1850 he resigned from his work there because, as a Catholic, he disapproved of the magazine's criticism of the Pope. From then on he turned to book illustration and depictions of fairytale scenes with watercolors. Andrew Lang was so impressed by Doyle's work that he provided the text to some of the pictures published under the title The Princess Nobody (1884). Doyle died of complications from a stroke.
family
Richard Doyle was the brother of the artist Charles Altamont Doyle , and thus the uncle of his son Arthur Conan Doyle , the creator of Sherlock Holmes .
literature
- Joachim Möller: entry in Artists of the World . Volume 29. Saur, Munich, Leipzig 2001, p. 277.
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| SURNAME | Doyle, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1883 |
| Place of death | London |