English illustrators

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 231. Chapters: W. S. Gilbert, Walter Goodman, Beatrix Potter, John Reinhard Weguelin, Denis McLoughlin, William Hogarth, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Willie Rushton, Jack Coggins, Bill Oddie, Alfred Wainwright, Geoff Taylor, John Everett Millais, Mervyn Peake, Clive Barker, Les Edwards, Robert Seymour (illustrator), John Tenniel, David Gentleman, Ian Miller (illustrator), Peter Scott, Joseph Austin Benwell, Ronald Searle, William Nicholson (artist), Roger Dean (artist), Edward Lear, Garrick Palmer, Raymond Briggs, John Blanche, Alfred Garth Jones, Ray Mutimer, Walter Crane, Aubrey Beardsley, Quentin Blake, Lauren Child, Charles Tunnicliffe, Dave McKean, Peter Andrew Jones, Arthur Rackham, Mark Burgess (children's author), John Guille Millais, Frederick Sandys, George Cruikshank, Gerald Scarfe, John Leech (caricaturist), Charles West Cope, E. H. Shepard, David Hughes (illustrator), Bettina Shaw-Lawrence, Reginald Bathurst Birch, George Charles Haité, Thomas Hearne (artist), Eric Ravilious, Dudley Hardy, W. Heath Robinson, Shirley Hughes, Worthington George Smith, John Nash (artist), John Charlton (artist), Henry Holiday, Philip Reeve, Thomas Bewick, David Macaulay, John Minton (artist), John Sell Cotman, Jim Connolly (illustrator), Clifford Harper, Frederick Bligh Bond, Thomas Cooper Gotch, George Henry Boughton, Michael Turner (illustrator), Thomas Henry, Mortimer Menpes, Edward Julius Detmold, Ian Robinson (publisher), Thomas Uwins, Donald McGill, Alfred Parsons (artist), Laurence Housman, George Johann Scharf, Richard Dadd, C. Walter Hodges, Harold Nelson (illustrator), Peter Barrett (illustrator), William Marshall (illustrator), Edmund Hort New, Nelly Erichsen, Thomas Derrick (artist), Norman Wilkinson (artist), Richard Doyle (illustrator), Frederick Gordon Crosby, Keith Roberts, Alan Aldridge, William Gell, Edward Theodore Compton, David Henry Friston, Charles Ricketts, Arthur Wimperis, Robert William Buss, Edmund Thomas Parris, Walter Tyndale, Thomas Rowlandson, Solomon Hart, Luke Fildes, Robert Gillmor, Roger Hargreaves, Frederick Walker (painter), Hablot Knight Browne, Russell Ayto, Simon Henwood, Henry Hugh Armstead, Michael Chappell, Peter Boston, George Housman Thomas, C. H. B. Quennell, George Dunlop Leslie, Sawrey Gilpin, William Hole (artist), Ernest William Haslehust, John William North. Excerpt: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 - 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these are H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. These, as well as several of the other Savoy operas, continue to be frequently performed in the English-speaking world and beyond by opera companies, repertory companies, schools and community theatre groups. Lines from these works have become part of the English language, such as "short, sharp shock", "What, never? Well, hardly ever!", and "Let the punishment fit the crime". Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light verse accompanied by his own comical drawings. His creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, numerous stories, poems, lyrics and various other comic and serious pieces. His plays and realistic style of stage direction inspired other dramatists, incl...