Isaac Robert Cruikshank

Isaac Robert Cruikshank ( born September 27, 1789 in Bloomsbury, † March 13, 1856 in Pentonville ) was an English cartoonist and illustrator. He was the elder brother of George Cruikshank, who was also a cartoonist, and son of the Scottish painter and caricaturist Isaac Cruikshank.

Robert Cruikshank attended together with his brother attended school in Edgware. Both were very interested in the theater and performed together with her friend, the later famous actor Edmund Kean, self-written pieces. The brothers visited also like boxing and fencing tournaments, cockfights and various pubs competitions.

Cruikshank was a midshipman on the ship Perseverance of the East India Company. But he did not get along with the captain, and on the return trip of his first voyage, he was left on St. Helena, whether with or without intent to go about the representations apart. In 1806 he came with a whaler back to London and shocked his family, who was in mourning because she thought he was dead

In the following years, Cruikshank established as a painter of portraits and small portraits, but also gradually discovered his enjoyment of humorous art. One of his first cartoons is known from the year 1816, when he made ​​fun of Princess Charlotte. His favorite subjects were the Regency dandies and their female counterparts, the Prince Regent, whose wife Caroline and other members of the nobility. One popular motif was the then modern Hobby Horse (impeller ).

In the late 1820s, Robert Cruikshank had developed a reputation as a cartoonist, but then he turned increasingly to book illustrations. One of the most famous books was The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., And his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, Accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in Their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis, briefly called Life in London.

1856 ill Robert Cruikshank, who never reached the degree of popularity of his younger brother, at a bronchitis and died. It is located on the Highgate Cemetery buried.