Category: Illustrators
Trew, Cecil G
About Cecil Gwendolen Russell worked under her first married name, Cecil G Trew. She did much of her work for A & C Black, and is probably best known now in equine circles as the illustrator of two of Primrose Cumming’s Silver Eagle books. She was as much at home drawing dogs as horses and…
Shillabeer, Mary
About Mary Shillabeer worked mostly as an illustrator of children’s early readers, of which she illustrated a wide range. She illustrated relatively few books for older readers, but amongst them are three pony books. Her fourth pony book (Dora Broome’s Circus Pony) is an early reader. None of these books entered the mainstream of pony…
Seaby, Allen W
About the author Allen W. Seaby (1867–1953) was one of the last exponents of the pony stories in which the pony was the hero. He concentrated on British native breeds, meaning that his books still have a popularity today, with the resurgence of natives. The stories reflect the changing times in which they were written:…
Rose, Sheila
About Sheila Rose (1929 – 2012) was born in Bishop’s Stortford on September 26th, 1929, and was educated at Hitchin Grammar School and Harrogate College. She started riding her own ponies, and drawing them, when she was four, and, according to her entry in Who’s Who in the Pony Magazine Annual 1968, “competed at all…
Morgan, Violet
About Violet Morgan was notable for illustrating many of her sister, Kathleen Mackenzie’s, stories. She worked with her sister to the exclusion of almost all others, although oddly, she did not do the cover illustrations for most titles. Jumping Jan, and Red Conker, for example, had covers by Maurice Tulloch. Anne Gordon did Nancy and…
Marshall, Constance
About I haven’t as yet been able to find any biographical information on Constance Marshall, but the search continues. Constance Marshall wasn’t a prolific illustrator of pony books. She mostly appeared to work on Blackie’s Carol Vaughan titles, though didn’t do her last book, King of the Castle, which was published in 1968. She also…
Lyne, Michael
About Michael Lyne was born in 1912 in Herefordshire, and was educated at Rossall School, taking some lessons at the Cheltenham School of Art. By the age of four he had already dictated and illustrated two small books, and once he saw his first hunt at the age of six, he was hooked on the…
Lloyd, Stanley
About Stanley Lloyd is probably best known for his illustrations for Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers series, for which he did all the first edition illustrations. He was, though, very active in the field of pony book illustration, and the majority of his book illustration was for books featured horses. Stanley Lloyd started his career doing…
Keeping, Charles
About Charles Keeping (1924–88) is an illustrator it is difficult to have neutral feelings about. His strong and vivid drawings are full of energy and demand a response. His drawings for Alan Garner’s unicorn fantasy, Elidor, capture brilliantly the ferocious swirl of movement as Elidor bursts into the human world; his Grendel is petrifying, and skulls…
Ivester Lloyd, Thomas
About the author Thomas Ivester-Lloyd (1873–1942) was born in Liverpool. During World War I, he served with the Remount Service, in common with many other equine artists. He was later commissioned into the Royal Artillery. From childhood he hunted, and he became Master of the Sherington Foot Beagles. As well as his equine portraits, he…