Honor Appleton
Illustration — Illustration by Honor C. Appleton from Dumpy Proverbs, 1903 Honor Charlotte Appleton (1879–1951) was a British illustrator of children's books, including The Children's Alice. She had a delicate watercolour style, influenced by Kate Greenaway and others.
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Honor Appleton
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- Born
- 1879 · Brighton.
- Died
- 1951
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator
- Fields
- children's literature
- Education
- Royal College of Art · The School of Animal Painting
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Illustration by Honor C. Appleton from Dumpy Proverbs, 1903 Honor Charlotte Appleton (1879–1951) was a British illustrator of children's books, including The Children's Alice. She had a delicate watercolour style, influenced by Kate Greenaway and others.
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Honor Appleton studied at Royal College of Art and The School of Animal Painting. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is children's literature. Beatrix Potter and Arthur Rackham are recorded as an influence. Work by Honor Appleton is recorded in the collections of Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.
She was born in Brighton, on the south coast of England, on 4 February 1879, to John Hoblyn Appleton (1833-1881), a parish priest, and Georgina Rachel Maud Appleton nee Wilkie (1856-1939) and lived in nearby Hove most of her life. She had two sisters and a brother. She studied art at the Kensington School, Frank Calderon's School of Animal Painting and the Royal Academy of Arts. She died at the Brooklands Nursing Home at Haywards Heath on 30 December 1951. She never married. Appleton left an estate valued at £9302 15s 5d.
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Appleton illustrated more than 150 books in the course of her career. They included the fairytales of Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen, William Blake's Songs of Innocence and a retold version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Children's Alice. Her watercolours were exhibited at the Royal Academy, and there was a memorial exhibition of her work at Hove Library in 1952.
5 CHILDREN BOOKS: 1) F.H. BURNETT (1849-1924) REGINALD B. BIRCH (1856-1943) 'LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY' Illustrated from drawings by Reginald B. Birch Ed. London Frederick Warne Co., 1891 269 pp., in-8 In English. 2) H.C. CRADOCK (1863-1941) HONOR C. APPLETON (1879–1951) 'JOSEPHINE'S BIRTHDAY' Illustrated by Mrs H.C Appleton Honor C. Ed. Blackie and Son Limited, 1920 64 pp., 25.5 x 19 cm In English.
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watercolour with traces of pencil on thick paper, depicting a boy in a cornfield gazing up at a white bird in flight, signed lower right, lightly toned (with faint brown offset line to upper and left hand edges), image size 20.5 x 15.5cm (8 x 6ins), titled in pencil in the artist's hand to lower margin beneath image, and with additional caption "A white bird rose suddenly from the corn. Toby and t
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- 1.The Children's Alice - Illustrated by Honor Appleton.
- 2.Honor Appleton at Books Illustrated – archive date 3 April 2011
- 3.Oxford University Press. Appleton, Honor Charlotte. Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators.
- 4.Honor Charlotte Appleton in the Register of England, Select Births and Christenings (1538-2975), Ancestry.com
- 5.Honor Charlotte Appleton in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 (1952), Ancestry.com
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