United Kingdom. 1846 - 1930
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Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The three... Read full biography
Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his... Read full biography
Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson... Read full biography
Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology. Peake also wrote poetry and literary nonsense in verse form, short stories for adults and children (Letters from a Lost Uncle, 1948), stage and radio plays, and Mr Pye (1953), a relatively... Read full biography
Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology. Peake also wrote poetry and literary nonsense in verse form, short stories for adults and children (Letters from a Lost Uncle, 1948), stage and radio plays, and Mr Pye (1953), a relatively tightly-structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero.... Read full biography
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England. 1888 - 1960
Portrait painting, stone sculpture, book illustration, war artist
England. 1886 - 1956
Painting, drawing
England. 1872 - 1944
Cartoon images of fantasy machines-contraptions, book illustrations and painting
United Kingdom. 1879 - 1976
Children's book illustration (Winnie the Pooh)
United Kingdom, South Korea. 1900 - 1979
Painting
England. 1912 - 2005
Collage, surrealist painting of figures, animals, fish, buildings, landscape, educator
United Kingdom. 1936 - 2013
Abstract, mythological, figurative painting
United Kingdom, England. 1908 - 1997
Portrait, figure, and landscape painting; haunting ghosts, spirits and witches
United Kingdom. 1928 - 2015
Painting and sculpture
England. 1917 - 1957
Realist painting, illustration, stage design, teaching
United Kingdom. 1900 - 1971
Modernist, surralist painting, design
United Kingdom, Austria. 1926 - 1988
Abstract figure painting
New York / England, France. 1920 - 2011
Satirical cartoonist, war artist
England. 1914 - 2009
Abstract expressionist painting
United Kingdom. 1921 - 1975
Sculpture-abstract figure, painting
England. 1915 - 2012
Fruit and floral still-life, animal and landscape painting, teaching
United Kingdom. 1909 - 1978
Theatre paintings
England, France. 1901 - 1930
Naive style landscape, figure, marine and still life painting
United Kingdom. 1911 - 1990
Portrait, landscape, genre and flower painting
United States, United Kingdom, England. 1886 - 1963
Semi-realist sculpture, direct carving, teaching
United Kingdom. 1912 - 1973
Landscape, marine and still life painting
United Kingdom. 1926 - 2004
Painting
United Kingdom, England. 1920 - 2017
Figures in interiors and landscape painting, writing, teaching
United Kingdom, United States, England. 1890 - 1975
Nude figure drawing, abstact figure sculpture, illustration, etching
England, United Kingdom. 1919 - 1999
Abstract landscape painting, printmaking, found object assemblage, teaching
United Kingdom. 1922 - 2009
Mediterranean-inspired art, close ties with notable British artists
England. 1912 - 1977
Modernist, abstract figure painting and drawing-nudes, teaching
United Kingdom. 1905 - 1986
Painting
England, United Kingdom. 1930 - 2018
Abstract expressionist painting
United Kingdom. 1921 - 2006
Abstract painting, art education, art criticism
England. 1915 - 2003
Abstract painting, collage, teaching