Category: Illustrators
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Hough, Charlotte
About Helen Charlotte Hough (pronounced How) was born in Hampshire on May 24, 1924, and died on December 31, 2008. Her father, a doctor, was 50 when she was born. Her mother was much younger, and Charlotte had a rather dislocated childhood, as her father refused to contribute to her upbringing. She was educated at…
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Holiday, Gilbert
About the author Charles Gilbert Joseph Holiday (1879–1937) was born on 29th January 1879. He was not generally known by his Christian name, but as either Gilbert or “GS”. His early life was spent in St John’s Wood, London, where he used to watch the Royal Horse Artillery, which fuelled his early love of horses.…
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Gernat, Mary
About Mary Gernat (1926–98) was probably one of the most prolific cover artists of the 1960s. She was born in Ewell, Surrey in 1926, and trained at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in Kingsway and at Regent Street Polytechnic. Mary had a large family, and combined looking after them with working as a…
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Caney
About The original illustrations for the first Hodder and Stoughton printings of the Jill books were done by Caney, about whom information is extremely difficult to find. In some British Library records, Caney’s initials are given as C E, and the R M Ballantyne record gives the name as Clifford, so I am assuming this…
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Aldin, Cecil
About Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) was one of the finest portrayers of the dog. He also became well known for his hunting scenes, poster illustrations and paintings of manor houses and country inns. His contribution to the world of the storybook horse was small, though significant. He illustrated one of the better Black Beauty editions and…