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RANDOLPH CALDECOTT (1846-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 983 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RANDOLPH See also:CALDECOTT (1846-1886)  , See also:English artist and illustrator, was See also:born at See also:Chester on the 22nd of See also:March 1846 . From 1861 to 1872 he was a See also:bank clerk, first at See also:Whitchurch in See also:Shropshire, afterwards at See also:Manchester; but devoted all his spare See also:time to the cultivation of a remarkable See also:artistic See also:faculty . In 1872 he migrated to See also:London, became a student at the See also:Slade School and finally adopted the artist's profession . He gained immediately a wide reputation as a prolific and See also:original illustrator, gifted with a genial, humorous faculty, and he succeeded also, though in less degree, as a painter and sculptor . His See also:health gave way in 1876, and after prolonged suffering he died in See also:Florida on the 12th of See also:February 1886 . His See also:chief See also:book illustrations are as follows:—Old See also:Christmas (1876) and Bracebridge See also:Hall (1877), both by See also:Washington See also:Irving; See also:North See also:Italian Folk (1877), by Mrs Comyns Carr; The Harz Mountains (1883); See also:Breton Folk (1879), by See also:Henry See also:Blackburn; picture-books (See also:John See also:Gilpin, The See also:House that See also:Jack Built, and other See also:children's favourites) from 1878 onwards; Some See also:Aesop's Fables with See also:Modern Instances, &c . (1883) . He held a roving See also:commission for the Graphic, and was an occasional contributor to See also:Punch . He was a member of the Royal See also:Institute of Painters in See also:Water-See also:colours . See Henry Blackburn, See also:Randolph See also:Caldecott, See also:Personal Memoir of his See also:Early See also:Life (London, 1886) .

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