Category: Illustrators
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Whittam, Geoffrey
About Geoffrey Whittam (born 1916, date of death uncertain but probably 1998) is an iconic figure in pony book illustration. He illustrated over 50 pony books, as well as providing illustrations for short stories and annuals. Whittam was responsible for illustrating one of the longest British pony book series, Judith M Berrisford’s Jackie series, as…
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Wanklyn, Joan
About The Pony Club Magazine Annual used to publish an Equestrian Who’s Who as its last section up until 1973. Although not a riveting read for me at the time, it’s now a goldmine of information over 30 years later as I research the development of the pony book. Joan Wanklyn featured in the Who’s…
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Tulloch, Maurice
About Maurice Tulloch (1894?–1974) illustrated several pony books, and numerous books on sporting subjects. I have, as yet, found no biographical information on him, but I assume from the dates of his published work that he saw active service during World War II. It is probable that he spent some time in India; he was…
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Trew, Cecil G
About Cecil Gwendolen Russell (1897–1958) 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…
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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…
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Seaby, Allen W
About the author Allen W. Seaby (1867–1953) was born in London in 1867, and began studying evening classes at the Reading School of Art. He was appointed a lecturer in art at the school, which became part of the University of Reading. He became professor of art there from 1920–33. He was one of the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…