Arthur Wallis Mills
Illustration — Photograph of original artwork by Arthur Wallis Mills for The Black and White Illustrated Budget, 1903 Arthur Wallis Mills (often abbreviated A. Wallis Mills, as well as A. Mills) (1878–1940) was a British artist. He also illustrated A Cabinet Secret (Guy Boothby, 1901), the 1908 edition of The Novels of Jane Austen in Ten Volumes, The Zincali - An account of the gypsies of Spain (George Borrow, 1841) and The Red Book of Heroes (Andrew Lang, 1909). Mills illustrated many of P. Wodehouse's stories in magazines, including Indiscretions of Archie (1920–1921), Leave It to Psmith (1923), and 15 of P. Wodehouse's Jeeves short stories in The Strand Magazine, the first being "Jeeves in the Springtime" (1921).
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Arthur Wallis Mills
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- 1878
- Died
- 1940
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- caricaturist · painter · illustrator · comics artist · cartoonist · draftsperson
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He illustrated more Jeeves short stories for their original UK magazine publications than any other artist.
• Illustration — Suffragettes at Home for Punch Magazine, published 14 April 1909. • Illustration — The Suffragette that Knew Jiu-Jitsu. The Arrest. (Edith Margaret Garrud) By Arthur Wallis Mills, originally published 1910 for Punch Magazine and The Wanganui Chronicle. • Illustration — Illustration of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves for P. G. Wodehouse's short story "Jeeves in the Springtime", published in The Strand Magazine in December 1921.
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Arthur Wallis Mills lived from 1878 to 1940 and was an illustrator, cartoonist and draughtsman.
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Arthur Wallis Mills is recorded as caricaturist, painter, illustrator, comics artist and cartoonist.
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Arthur Wallis Mills was born in 1878. Arthur Wallis Mills died in 1940.
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1940
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- 1.WikiWorldBook. Wallis Mills.
- 2.Mr. Punch in Bohemia : or, The lighter side of literary, artistic and professional life : May, Phil, 1864-1903, ill : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive.
- 3.Phil May. MR. PUNCH IN BOHEMIA — PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR.
- 4.Spartacus-Educational.com. Punch Magazine.
- 5.Artfact. Wallis Mills - Featured Artist Lot - Onslows. 2010-12-23.
- 6.Artfact. Wallis Mills - Featured Artist Lot - Holloway's. 2010-12-23.
- 7.Studium.com. Sherlock Holmes - The Strand Magazine - 1891-1930 - Studium Magazine. 2007-06-21.
- 8.Amazon.co.uk. A Cabinet Secret eBook: Guy Newell Boothby, Arthur Wallis Mills: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store.
- 9."Review", The Literary Digest, October 17, 1908, p. 561. 1908-10-17.
- 10.Artfact. Wallis Mills - Featured Artist Lot - Dickins Auctioneers. 2010-12-23.
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