Cheviot, Lilian (1876-1934) - The Dandies

This image by Lilian Cheviot is from The Wonder Book of Pets from the 1940s and features cute dogs.

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This image also features in our Dogs in Art 106-image collection.

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Lilian Cheviot (1876-1936) was an English painter who specialised in painting dogs, although she did paint other animals too.

She lived in South Molesey in Surrey and exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1895 and 1899. She studied at Frank Calderon's School of Animal Painting and Walter Donne's Life School and exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1895 with the painting There's many a Slip and in 1899 with Kittens. 

Her work On the way to the Horse Fair was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World. 

In 1911 her illustrations were included in the book The New Book of the Dog.