{"title":"Millar, Harold","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarold Robert Millar (1869-1942)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a prominent and prolific Scottish graphic artist and illustrator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is best known for his illustrations of children's books and fantasy literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA native of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Millar first pursued civil engineering before deciding upon an artistic career. He then studied at the Wolverhampton Art School and the Birmingham School of Art and established his career as a magazine illustrator with Punch, Good Words, and other periodicals of the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMillar illustrated fables for the Strand Magazine, and anthologies of tales, The Golden Fairy Book, The Silver Fairy Book, The Diamond Fairy Book, and The Ruby Fairy Book. He illustrated books by a wide range of British authors of his time, including Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling. He had an extensive working relationship with E. Nesbit, and has been called \"the most sympathetic and perhaps the most talented of her illustrators.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApart from fantasy and children's books, Millar drew pictures for works like Kate Lawson's Highways and Homes of Japan (1910) and Arthur Dugmore's African Jungle Life (1928). Millar was a noted collector of Eastern art and exotic and ancient weapons; he employed his interest and knowledge in these areas in his artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA partial list of the books Millar illustrated includes:-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH. Rider Haggard's The Brethren\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNewman Harding's The Little Black Monkey and The Little Grey Pedlar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoward Angus Kennedy's The New World Fairy Book and The Canadian Fairy Book\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKipling's Kim and Puck of Pook's Hill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaptain Marryat's Frank Mildmay, The Phantom Ship, and Snarley-Yow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMrs. Molesworth's Peterkin, and The Wood-pigeons and Mary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Morier's The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdith Nesbit's The Book of Dragons, The Enchanted Castle, Five Children and It, The House of Arden, The Magic City, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet, and other works\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Love Peacock's Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuiller-Couch's Fairy Tales Far and Near\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTetta Ward's My Fairy Tale Book\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"millar-harold-r-1869-1942-the-happy-king-explained-1927","title":"Millar, Harold R (1869-1942) - The Happy King explained 1927","description":"\u003cp\u003eIllustration by Harold Millar showing a King and Queen at the dining table from a story called 'That's How it all Began'. 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