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- Richard Doyle
- Also known as
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Richard Doyle
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primary name: Doyle, Richard
- Details
- individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1824-1883
- Biography
- Draughtsman, illustrator, and painter of fairies and landscapes. Known as 'Dickie' Doyle; son of John, and uncle of Conan Doyle. Brother of Charles Altamont, Henry Edward and James William Edmund. Illustrator for 'Punch', 1843-50, resigned over the paper's anti-papal policies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Doyle_(illustrator). The British Museum purchased a number of works from the sale at Christie's after his death (7.vi.1886), organized by his brother James after he exhibited them at the Grosvenor Gallery, winter, 1885
- Bibliography
- D. Hambourg, 'Richard Doyle, His life and work', London 1948
R. Engen, 'Richard Doyle', Stroud, 1983
R. Engen et. al, 'Richard Doyle and his family', exh. cat. V&A, 1983
R.K.Engen, 'Dictionary of Victorian Wood Engravers,' 1985
Lionel Lambourne in 'Burlington Magazine' 1978 pp.290ff. (on sketchbooks in the V&A)
