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Hofsten, Hugo Von A successful illustrator in America, Hugo von Hofsten (1865-1947) was born to an aristocratic family in Karlskoga, Varmland, Sweden. He trained at the Royal Academy in Stockholm, and then immigrated to New York City in 1885 where he worked as an illustrator on 'The Graphic'. He moved to Chicago in 1893 to do illustrations for 'The Evening Post', 'The Journal', and 'The Tribune'. In 1895 he headed the illustration department for 'The Times Herald'. Af...

Hey, Paul Paul Hey (1867-1952) was a German illustrator, graphic artist, and painter. Hey was born to the musician Julius Hey on 19th October 1867 in München, Germany. He lived and worked near Gautig, Germany. Known for his dark, wooded illustrations of fairy tales, folk songs, historic events, and quaint everyday life, his work was featured in many different commercial contexts such as postcards, book illustrations, and collectible cigarette cards. His thematic direction is noted for its connection to...

Hokusai, Katsushika Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. His works had a significant influence ...

Holiday, Henry Henry Holiday (1839-1927) was an English Victorian painter of historical genre and landscapes, also a stained-glass designer, illustrator, and sculptor. He was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, many of whom he knew. Holiday was born in London. He showed an early aptitude for art and was given lessons by William Cave Thomas. He attended Leigh's art academy (where a fellow student was Frederick Walker) and in 1855, at the age of 15, was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools. Thr...

Holst, Theodor von Theodor Richard Edward von Holst (1810-1844) was a nineteenth-century British literary painter. Von Holst was born in London, the fourth of the five children of Matthias and Katharina von Holst. Von Holst's drawing talents were noticed by the artist Henry Fuseli and Sir Thomas Lawrence. Lawrence even bought drawings from the ten-year-old von Holst. Fuseli trained the young man in early years, after which he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1824. According to Max Browne's b...

Howitt, Samuel Samuel Howitt (1756/57-1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher of animals, hunting, horse-racing and landscape scenes. He worked in both oils and watercolours. Howitt was a member of an old Nottinghamshire Quaker family. In early life he lived at Chigwell, near Epping Forest, Essex, was financially independent and devoted himself to field sports. However he ran into financial difficulties and was obliged to turn to art as a profession - which up until then he had engaged in as a ...

Hole, William William Brassey Hole RSA (1846-1917) was a Scottish Victorian painter, illustrator, etcher and engraver. He was known for his industrial, historical and biblical scenes. Hole was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, the son of a doctor, Richard Brassey Hole and his wife Ann Burn Hole (nee Fergusson); his father died in the cholera epidemic of 1849, when William was only 3 years of age, and the family relocated to Edinburgh, Scotland, shortly afterwards. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy then serv...

Holloway, William William Herbert Holloway (1878-1925) was born in Richmond, Surrey, England in 1878. He married May du Roveray, daughter of Swiss-French parents and 10 years his junior, in 1911. They had a son, Dennis, born in 1916. A newspaper report from 1925 states that he died after playing a strenuous tennis game with a doctor friend. His sudden collapse after the hour-and-a-half game was a surprise to everyone concerned. The post-mortem examination stated that he died from coronary disease of the heart....

Hudson, Gwynedd Gwynedd May Hudson (1882-1935), was one of the many illustrators of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She studied at the Brighton School of Art and illustrated at the Royal Academy around 1912. She was a British figure painter, poster artist and illustrator, mainly known for her illustrations of Alice in Wonderland, and also for Peter Pan. Her 'Alice' was first published in 1922.

Jawlensky, Alexej von Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (1864-1941), surname also spelt as Yavlensky, was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany. He was a key member of the New Munich Artist's Association (Neue Künstlervereinigung München), Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group and later Die Blaue Vier (The Blue Four). Alexej von Jawlensky was born in Torzhok, a town in Tver Governorate, Russia, as the fifth child of Georgi von Jawlensky and his wife Alexandra (née Medwedewa). At the age of ten he...

Jones, Ernest Harold Ernest Harold Jones (1877-1911) was a British artist and excavator who identified early clues to the location of Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt. He contracted tuberculosis and in 1904 he decided to go to Egypt to relieve his symptoms. He worked with archaeologist John Garstang, of Liverpool, from 1904–07 and then for Theodore M. Davis and Emma Andrews from 1907-11. He died of tuberculosis in Luxor, Egypt, in March 1911. Jones was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire on 7 March 1877 to William J...

Humphrey, Maud Maud Humphrey(1868-1940) was a commercial illustrator, watercolourist and suffragette from the United States. She was the mother of the actor Humphrey Bogart and frequently used her young son as a model. Maud was born in Rochester, New York in 1868 to John Perkins Humphrey and Frances V. Dewey Churchill. She studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Julian Academy in Paris. It was there that she studied with James McNeil Whistler, an American artist based mainly in the UK. She ma...

Hughes, Edward Robert Edward Robert Hughes RWS (1851-1914) was a British painter, who primarily worked in watercolours, but also produced a number of oil paintings. He was influenced by his uncle and artist, Arthur Hughes who was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and worked closely with one of the Brotherhood's founders, William Holman Hunt. E.R. Hughes (known to his family as "Ted") was born in Clerkenwell, London, in 1851 to Edward Hughes Snr. and Harriet Foord. He had one brother, Will...

Inchbold, John John William Inchbold (1830-1888) was an English painter who was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. His style was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was the son of a Yorkshire newspaper owner, Thomas Inchbold. Inchbold was born 29 April 1830 at Leeds, Yorkshire, where his father, Thomas Inchbold, was the proprietor and editor of the Leeds Intelligencer. Having shown an early talent for drawing he moved to London and became a draughtsman in the lithographic works of Day and Haghe. Inchbol...

Hughes, Arthur Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) was an English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was the uncle of Edward Robert Hughes. Hughes was born in London. In 1846 he entered the art school at Somerset House, his first master being Alfred Stevens, and later entered the Royal Academy schools. It was here, after reading a copy of The Germ, that he met John Everett Millais, Holman Hunt, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, although he never became an official member of the Pre-R...

Kauffer, Edward McKnight Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) was an American artist and graphic designer who lived for much of his life in the UK. He worked mainly in poster art, but was also active as a painter, book illustrator and theatre designer. Edward Leland Kauffer was born on 14 December 1890, in Great Falls, Montana. By 1910 he had moved to San Francisco working as a bookseller and studying art at the California School of Design from 1910 to 1912. At around this time Professor Joseph McKnight of the Univers...