Lance Thackeray
Illustration — Postcard of an Egyptian donkey boy, painted in watercolour by Thackeray. Lot "Lance" Thackeray (17 January 1867 – 10 August 1916) was an English illustrator, known especially for his comic sporting illustrations involving billiards and golf and for his many humorous postcards. Lance Thackeray was born in Darlington to Thomas Thackeray and his wife Selina Neish, Thackeray was baptized into the Church of England on 17 February 1867 at St John’s Church, Darlington.
Lance Thackeray
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- Died
- 1916 · Brighton.
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- painter · writer · illustrator
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Illustration — Postcard of an Egyptian donkey boy, painted in watercolour by Thackeray. Lot "Lance" Thackeray (17 January 1867 – 10 August 1916) was an English illustrator, known especially for his comic sporting illustrations involving billiards and golf and for his many humorous postcards. Lance Thackeray was born in Darlington to Thomas Thackeray and his wife Selina Neish, Thackeray was baptized into the Church of England on 17 February 1867 at St John’s Church, Darlington.
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Born in 1869, died in Brighton in 1916.
Work by Lance Thackeray is recorded in the collections of Australian National Maritime Museum.
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Waiter (Shepheard's Hotel) by Lance Thackeray from People of Egypt, 1916
Lance Thackeray (1869-1916) · Lance Thackeray: The People of Egypt, A. C. Black, London 1916
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- 1."Lot Thackeray" in England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 28 August 2022
- 2.1881 United Kingdom census, 2, Brunton Street, Darlington, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 28 August 2022
- 3.Andrew Humphreys, "The Light Side of Egypt", grandhotelsegypt.com, 27 August 2012
- 4.Images from "The Light Side of Egypt" (1908), bridgemanart.com
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