Cecil Aldin

Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin ( born April 28, 1870 in Slough, † January 6, 1935 in London) was a British illustrator and painter who was known for his animal motifs and depictions of sports and peasant scenes.

Life and work

Aldin completed their compulsory education in Eastbourne and Solihull and then went to Kensington, where he studied anatomy under William Calderon animal painting. Between 1913 and 1914 he lived in Sulhamstead south of Reading and was sacristan in the church of Sulhamstead Abbots.

His early work was influenced by Randolph Caldecott and John Leech. For the first time Aldin's drawings were published in the journal The Building News published and appeared from then on in many newspapers and magazines, on 12 September 1890.

Among his works are illustrations in two chapters of the first publication of Rudyard Kipling 's Second Jungle Book (1894 ), Charles Dickens ' Pickwick Papers (1910) and The Bunch Book of James Douglas ( 1932). Aldin also wrote and illustrated books himself, including 1923 Old Manor House and Old Inns series with images of architecture. On media used Aldin especially pastels, pencil and watercolors.

A popular book Aldin's are also the Sleeping Partners, a series of pastel drawings of two dogs on a sofa. It involves Aldin's own dog, the Irish Wolfhound Mickey and the Bull Terrier crackers.

Gallery

The Fallowfield Hunt

Scene from Sleeping Partners

Bibliography

From Aldin illustrated books (selection)

  • The Cecil Aldin hunting diary (1900)
  • Heiberg, Neils. White -ear and Peter: the story of a fox and a fox- terrier (London: Macmillan, 1912).
  • Byron, Cecil Aldin 's merry party May (London: Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913).
  • Maeterlinck, Maurice. My Dog ( London: G. Allen, 1913).
  • Waylett, Richard. The Doggie Book ( New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., ).
  • Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty: the autobiography of a horse ( London: Boots the Chemists, 1916).
  • Emanuel, Walter Lewis. A dog day; or, The angel in the house (New York: EP Dutton & Co., 1919. ).
  • Aldin, C. Old Inns (London: Heinemann, 1921)
  • Aldin, C. Old manor houses (London: W. Heinemann, 1920).
  • Hare, Kenneth. Roads and vagabonds (London Eyre & Spottiswoode ).

Biographies

  • Aldin, C. Time I Was Dead: Pages from My Autobiography (C. Scribner's Sons, 1934)
  • Heron, Roy. Cecil Aldin, the Story of a Sporting Artist ( Henry Holt & Company, 1982)
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