Illustrationintheworld

Francis Marshall was a British magazine and book illustrator, whose short stint as a comic artist included illustrations for installments of the French vertical comic strip 'Le Crime Ne Paie Pas' by  Paul Gordeaux . Early life and career William Francis Marshall was born in 1901 and educated at the Slade College of Fine Art in London. He began his career in advertising illustration. In 1928 he began a collaboration with Condé Nast as an illustrator for their magazine Vogue, to which he contributed during a period of ten years. He also painted numerous covers for romantic fiction especially the Barbara Cartland titles for PAN, Bantam, Corgi and NEL amongst others. He furthermore had a weekly fashion feature in the Daily Mail.

  Doré was born in  Strasbourg  on 6 January 1832. By age 5 he was a prodigy artist, creating drawings that were mature beyond his years. Seven years later, he began carving in stone. [ citation needed ]  At the age of 15, Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper  Le journal pour rire . [2]  Wood-engraving was his primary method at this time. [3]  In the late 1840s and early 1850s, he made several  text comics , like  Les Travaux d'Hercule  (1847),  Trois artistes incompris et mécontents  (1851),  Les Dés-agréments d'un voyage d'agrément  (1851) and  L'Histoire de la Sainte Russie  (1854). Doré subsequently went on to win commissions to depict scenes from books by  Cervantes ,  Rabelais ,  Balzac ,  Milton , and  Dante .

  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).

Newell Convers Wyeth  (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as  N. C. Wyeth , was an American artist and  illustrator . He was the pupil of artist  Howard Pyle  and became one of America's greatest illustrators. [1]  During his lifetime, Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, [2]  25 of them for  Scribner's , the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. [1]  The first of these,  Treasure Island , was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a  realist  painter at a time when the camera and photography began to compete with his craft. [3]  Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly. [4]  Wyeth, who was both a painter and an illustrator, understood the difference, and said in 1908, "Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other." [3] He is the fat...