{"title":"Doyle, Richard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard \"Dickie\" Doyle (1824-1883)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a British illustrator of the Victorian era. His work frequently appeared, amongst other places, in Punch magazine; he drew the cover of the first issue, and designed the magazine's masthead, a design that was used for over a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn at 17 Cambridge Terrace, London, one of seven children of Irish cartoonist John Doyle (known as 'H.B'), a noted political caricaturist, Doyle had three brothers, James, Charles and Henry Edward Doyle, who were also artists. The young Doyle had no formal art training other than his father's studio, but from an early age displayed a gifted ability to depict scenes of the fantastic and grotesque. Throughout his life he was fascinated by fairy tales. He produced his first complete illustrated book, Home for the Holidays, when he was twelve; it was published posthumously in 1887.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe joined the staff of Punch in 1843 aged 19, remaining there for seven years. He was the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoyle's first published illustrations appeared in The Eglinton Tournament (1840), a humour book set in the Middle Ages, which met with commercial success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoyle collaborated with John Leech, W.C. Stanfield and other artists to co-illustrate three Charles Dickens Christmas books, The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845) and The Battle of Life (1846).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1846 Doyle's illustrations for The Fairy Ring (a new translation of Grimm's tales), first made his name as a fairytale illustrator. Following this in 1849 he produced Fairy Tales from All Nations (compiled by 'Anthony R. Montalba', which proved a tremendous success. Doyle was able to fully explore his love of fairy mythology with his many illustrations and borders filled with elves, pixies and other mythical creatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing this success Doyle illustrated a string of fantasy titles: The Enchanted Doll by Mark Lemon (1849), The Story of Jack and the Giants (1850), and John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River (1850), which went through three editions in its first year of publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdward Ellice was a serial host for notable visitors to Scotland. In 1859 Doyle was invited and Katherine Ellice, an amateur artist, served as host when he visited. Katherine was given an illustrated diary of a journey to the islands of Rona and Skye and this is extant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe also wrote for Punch a series of articles entitled Manners and Customes of ye Englyshe. A devout Roman Catholic, he resigned his position on the staff of Punch in 1850 in response to its hostility to what was termed \"papal aggression\", and spent the remainder of his career in preparing drawings for book illustration and to painting in watercolour. Doyle published works of his own, which helped establish his reputation with a large readership: Manners and Customs of Ye Englishe (1849) and Bird's Eye View of Society (1864).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis chief series of illustrations were those for The Newcomes, The King of the Golden River, and The Foreign Tour of Brown, Jones and Robinson. In 1844, Doyle designed the cover of Punch's sixth issue. It became the basis of the magazine's masthead until 1954, and was based on Titian's \"Bacchus and Ariadne\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis masterpiece is indubitably In Fairyland, a series of Pictures from the Elf World, with a poem by William Allingham, printed by Edmund Evans and published by Longman in time for Christmas 1869 (dated 1870). In the 16 colour plates and 36 line illustrations plus title page, Doyle was given a completely free hand. The folio was richly bound in green cloth, and has been described as one of the finest examples of Victorian book production (Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, 1991 p.12). The illustrations were used in the publication of another book as well, The Princess Nobody by Andrew Lang (1884).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoyle was generally regarded as being brilliant but unreliable. For example, he was consistently late with his illustrations for The Newcomes, only meeting his commitments when Thackeray threatened to give the work to another artist. Doyle's excuses were often ridiculous, and the Dalziel brothers reported that on one occasion he failed to meet a deadline because he had 'not got any pencils'. Such amateurism hampered Doyle's success. Several books he had been commissioned to illustrate did not appear because he lacked the application needed to finish them, and completed work was often uneven in quality and 'deplorably pedestrian'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoyle signed many of his drawings with the depiction of a small bird standing on the initials 'RD', a reference to his nickname \"Dickie\" (as in \"dickie bird\").\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fairies-in-art-91-images","title":"Fairies in Art - 91 High Resolution Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnter the magical world of fairies in art with this amazing set of images that showcases different artists' approaches to these incredible mythical creatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtists include Sophie Anderson, William Blake, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, George Cruikshank, Richard Dadd, Etheline Dell, Gustave Doré, Charles Doyle, Richard Altamount Doyle, Edmund Dulac, John Anster Fitzgerald, Warwick Goble, Lady Oswald, Joseph Noel Paton, John Simmons and lots more!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick on the link above to see a full list of all the artists, pictures and sizes.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download features 91 hi-res images in JPEG format that are all 600dpi and range in size from 3048 to 7161 pixels wide\/tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 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