Francis Donkin Bedford
Francis Bedford • Illustration — Illustration for Peter and Wendy, 1911 Francis Donkin Bedford (1864–1954), also known as F. Bedford, was a British artist and illustrator. He was born in Notting Hill and lived in London. He painted genre scenes and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1892.
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Francis Donkin Bedford
Francis Donkin Bedford · Illustration from "Peter and Wendy" by James Matthew Barrie, Published 1911 by C. Scribner's Sons, New York · Public domain
- Born
- 1864 · Kensington.
- Died
- 1954 · Kensington.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator
- Fields
- book illustration · illustration · painting
- Languages
- English
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Francis Bedford • Illustration — Illustration for Peter and Wendy, 1911 Francis Donkin Bedford (1864–1954), also known as F. Bedford, was a British artist and illustrator. He was born in Notting Hill and lived in London. He painted genre scenes and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1892.
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Bedford's works include illustrations for A Book of Nursery Rhymes (1897), The Books of Shops (1899), Four and Twenty Toilers (1900), The Visit to London (1902), Forgotten Tales of Long Ago (1906), Runaways and Castaways (1908), Peter and Wendy (1911), The Magic Fishbone (1921), Under the Tree (1922), A Christmas Carol (1923), and The Cricket on the Hearth (1927).
Francis Donkin Bedford is recorded as painter and illustrator.
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1864
Francis Donkin Bedford born at Kensington.
1954
Francis Donkin Bedford died at Kensington.
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