Frederick Henry Townsend ARE (25 February 1868 – 11 December 1920) [1] [2] was a British illustrator, cartoonist and art editor of Punch.
F.H. Townsend illustrated the second edition of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre, A Child's History of England and Gryll Grange, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables [1] in 1902. Also an edition (1907) of Kipling's The Brushwood Boy [3] and the 1903 edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four. [4] Townsend also contributed cartoons to Punch, [5] becoming its art editor for fifteen years from 1905 until his death.
He was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club (since its foundation in 1891) and the Arts Club (from 1908). [6] In later life he became interested in etching and in 1915 he was elected as an associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (ARE), [3] having studied etching under Sir Frank Short about two years earlier. [6]
Townsend was one of the leading illustrators selected by Percy Bradshaw for inclusion in his The Art of the Illustrator which presented a separate portfolio for each of twenty illustrators. [note 1]
He died on 11 December 1920 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.[ citation needed]
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Frederick Henry Townsend ARE (25 February 1868 – 11 December 1920) [1] [2] was a British illustrator, cartoonist and art editor of Punch.
F.H. Townsend illustrated the second edition of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre, A Child's History of England and Gryll Grange, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables [1] in 1902. Also an edition (1907) of Kipling's The Brushwood Boy [3] and the 1903 edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four. [4] Townsend also contributed cartoons to Punch, [5] becoming its art editor for fifteen years from 1905 until his death.
He was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club (since its foundation in 1891) and the Arts Club (from 1908). [6] In later life he became interested in etching and in 1915 he was elected as an associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (ARE), [3] having studied etching under Sir Frank Short about two years earlier. [6]
Townsend was one of the leading illustrators selected by Percy Bradshaw for inclusion in his The Art of the Illustrator which presented a separate portfolio for each of twenty illustrators. [note 1]
He died on 11 December 1920 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.[ citation needed]
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verification. (March 2024) |
Townsend illustrated the following works: