Illustrationintheworld

  Charles Robinson (1870–1937) was a prolific British book illustrator. Born in Islington in October 1870, London, he was the son of illustrator Thomas Robinson, and his brothers Thomas Heath Robinson and William Heath Robinson also became illustrators. He served an apprenticeship as a printer and took art lessons in the evenings. He won a place at the Royal Academy in 1892 but was unable to take it up due to lack of finances. The first full book he illustrated was Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses (1895) which includes over 100 pen and ink drawings. It was extremely popular, going through many reprints, and generated numerous commissions. He illustrated many fairy tales, children's books and books written by Walter Copeland Jerrold and himself throughout his career. He was also an active painter, especially in later life, and was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors in 1932.

  Charles Folkard was born in Lewisham, South London, on 6 April 1878, the son of a printer. Educated locally at Colfe's Grammar School, he began an apprenticeship with a firm of designers, but left to become a conjuror. It was in designing programs for his shows that he discovered his talent for drawing. He then studied at various art schools – including Goldsmiths' College and those at St John's Wood, Blackheath and Sidcup – while beginning to establish a career as an illustrator. Initially contributing humorous drawings to such periodicals as Little Folks and The Tatler, he made his name, in 1910, with illustrations to an edition of Johann Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson. A year later, he illustrated The Children's Shakespeare and Grimm's Fairy Tales, so initiating a relationship with the publisher, A & C Black, which would last for twenty-seven years. In 1915, Folkard joined the Daily Mail as a staff artist and, in that position, invented the newspape...

  He was  knighted  for artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered mainly as the principal political cartoonist for  Punch  magazine for over 50 years and for his illustrations to  Lewis Carroll 's  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland  (1865) and  Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There  (1871).