Richard Doyle (Illustrator)

Richard Doyle ( pseudonym "Dick Kitcat "; born September 18, 1824 in London, † December 10, 1883 ) was an English illustrator, cartoonist and painter.

Life and work

Richard Doyle was the second son of the portrait painter and caricaturist John Doyle. At the age of twelve years made ​​Richard Doyle comic illustrations to Homer. At sixteen, he began to write a diary which contained pen and ink drawings, and was published posthumously. In 1840 he returned with John Leech many illustrations for WH Maxwell's novel Hector O'Halloran. In the following years he worked with, among others, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray and John Ruskin (The King of the Golden River, 1851), where he preferred woodcuts and steel engravings.

From 1843 he made drawings for Punch, first of all ornaments, later the title page is still in use until 1954 and many cartoons. In 1850, he passed down his work because he disapproved as a Catholic criticism of the magazine at the Pope. From then on he turned to book illustration and illustrations of scenes from fairy tales with water colors. Andrew Lang was impressed with Doyle's works so that he delivered the text to some images that were published under the title The Princess Nobody ( 1884). Doyle died of a stroke.

Family

Richard Doyle was the brother of the artist Charles Altamont Doyle, and thus the uncle of his son Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes '.