An index of illustrators and artists to help you navigate our collection and enjoy some chance encounters along the way.
Artists whose names begin with 'H'
Elsie Harding (fl. 1920s-1930s), contributor to The Sketch and The Bystander of images of beautiful, stylish women, often with a fantasy element.
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Dudley Hardy (1867-1922), English artist and illustrator, best-known for his posters featuring The Gaiety Girls at the turn of the century.
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John Hassall (1868-1948) was a Versatile and incredibly prolific painter in oils & watercolours, a book illustrator, humorous artist for magazines and postcards, art teacher and a designer of pottery, figurines, furniture and nursery decor. But it was as a poster artist that he was best-known with such creations as his famous, 'Skegness is so Bracing' design for the Great Northern Railway earning him the title, 'The Poster King' at a time when the advertising hoardings were known as the 'Poor Man's Picture Gallery'.
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Angus Clifford Racey Helps (1913-1970), English children's author and illustrator whose work features woodland creatures reminiscent of Beatrix Potter.
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Leon Heron (fl.1920s-1930s), artist who produced light-hearted, humorous illustrations which appeared in The Bystander.
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Olive Hewerdine, British illustrator who produced fashion illustrations for The Sketch and The Tatler during the First World War and into the 1920s.
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Reginald Higgins (1877-1933), British graphic artist who worked in a flat, poster style frequently depicting the modern girl.
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Lydia Hine (1904-1964), illustrator of children's books, specialising in fairy subjects.
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Helga Hislop / Crouch, skilled British botanical artist, a founder member of the Society of Botanical Artists in 1985.
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Japanese artist and printmaker, whose most famous work is the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.
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Arthur Hopkins (1848-1930), British Victorian artist of social and genre scenes, whose work frequently appeared in The Graphic and other illustrated papers of the 19th century. Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was his brother.
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William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.
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Edward Sylvester Hynes (1897-1982), humorous artist and caricaturist, best-known for his striking cover designs for 'Men Only' magazine
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