RICHARD DOYLE
English illustrator (1824-1883)
Biography:
He was born in Hyde Park (London) in 1824. He was brought up in catholicism, for his father was an exiled Irish man. At the age of 15 he began writing and illustrating a family journal, later called "Dick Doyle's Journal:a Journal Kept by Richard Doyle in the Year 1840". Thanks to his father and his uncle Michael Conan, editor, he was successfully introduced to painting. In 1840, his first work is published under the title of The Eglinton Tournament.
He had a lively and brilliant sense of humour, quite reflected in his work as cartoonist for Punch, which earned him great notoriety. In 1846, he illustrated The Fairy Ring: A New Collection of Popular Tales. In 1855, he produced Juvenile Calendar and Zodiac of Flowers which were considered some of his best decorative and delightful works. Thanks to his illustration for Lemon's In the Fairy Land (1868) he became the leading illustrator of fairyland figures.
Richard Doyle was one of the most prevalent and favorite illustrators of the Victorian era
Works illustrated by Richard Doyle:
John Ruskin, The King of the Golden River, Dover Punb, 1974.
Dickens, Christmas books, Chapman and Hall, 1869.
Dickens, The cricket on the hearth, Bradbury and Evan, 1846.
Snow White and Rosy-Red with other famous tales, Dean and Son, 1871.
The story of Jack and the Giants, Cundall and Addey, 1851.
The enchanted crow and other famous fairy tales, Dean and Son, 1871.
Feast of the dwarfs, and other famous fairy tales, Dean and Son, 1871.
Lang, Andrew. The Princess nobody: A fairy tale land, Longmans, 1884.
Lemon, Mark. The enchanted doll, Bradbury and Evans, 1850.
Lemon, Mark. Fairy tales, Bradbury and Evans, 1868.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The fairy tale ring: A new collection of popular tales., J. Murray, 1846.