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  2. World of Art - Wikipedia

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    World of Art (formerly known as The World of Art Library) is a long established series of pocket-sized art books from the British publisher Thames & Hudson, comprising over 300 titles as of 2021. [3] The books are typically around 200 pages, but heavily illustrated.

  3. Ellis Silas - Wikipedia

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    Before returning to Australia in 1921, Silas executed a series of paintings depicting his wartime experiences. The Australian War Memorial holds over 60 sketches, drawings and watercolours by Silas, including large scale paintings such as The Roll Call. A second version of The Roll Call is in the collection of the UK's Imperial War Museum. [6]

  4. List of British artists - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Benwell Clark (1857–1938) – English landscape painter and book illustrator; Stanhope Forbes (1857–1947) – British artist, founder of the Newlyn School; Arthur Hacker (1858–1919) – English classicist painter; Henry Scott Tuke (1858–1929) – English painter who lived in Cornwall, best known for his maritime paintings and ...

  5. Robert Seymour (illustrator) - Wikipedia

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    In 1834, at the height of his prosperity, Seymour independently launched a new series of lithographs, Sketches by Seymour (1834–36), all depicting expeditions of over-equipped and under-trained Cockneys pursuing cats, birds and stray pigs on foot and on horseback, as experienced in his 1827 fishing and shooting expeditions with his friend ...

  6. Visionary Heads - Wikipedia

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    The Visionary Heads is a series of black chalk and pencil drawings produced by William Blake after 1818 by request of John Varley, the watercolour artist and astrologer. The subjects of the sketches, many of whom are famous historical and mythical characters, appeared to Blake in visions during late night meetings with Varley, as if sitting for ...

  7. John Sibbick - Wikipedia

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    The earliest books illustrated by Sibbick were largely children's reference books on a variety of subjects, sometimes including extinct life. Both his palaeoart and fantasy art careers began in the 1980s. He first gained wide recognition when his artwork was commissioned for a series of illustrated 1980s books on mythology and folk tales. [1]

  8. Ronald Searle - Wikipedia

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    In the Jungle - Working on a Cutting. Rock Clearing after Blasting, 1943. Although Searle published the first St Trinian's cartoon in the magazine Lilliput in 1941, his professional career really begins with his documentation of the brutal camp conditions of his period as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese in World War II in a series of drawings that he hid under the mattresses of prisoners ...

  9. Sidney Paget - Wikipedia

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    Sidney Edward Paget (/ ˈ p æ dʒ ɪ t /; [1] 4 October 1860 – 28 January 1908) was a British artist of the Victorian era, best known for his illustrations that accompanied Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand Magazine.