Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Painter, watercolourist, and illustrator (especially for children). Pseudonym: “A. Nobody.” Son of Hablot Knight Browne (“Phiz”). Born in Surrey. Studied at Heatherley’s School of Art and South Kensington School. Illustrator of many novels and periodicals. Contributed to Atalanta, Good Words, the Illustrated London News, The Penny Magazine, Chums, and Boy’s Own Paper. Elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1891 and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1896. Biographical information: Brigid Peppin and Lucy Micklethwait, Dictionary of British Book Illustrators: The Twentieth Century, Murray, 1983, pp. 59-60; Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children’s Book Illustration, Gallery Books, 2001, pp. 33-34. (CC)