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RICHARD DOYLE (1824-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 462 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD DOYLE (1824-1883)  ,
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English artist, son of John Doyle, the caricaturist known as " H . B." (1797-1868), was born in
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London in 1824 . His
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father's "
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Political Sketches " took the
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town by storm in the days of Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne . The son was an extremely precocious artist, and in his " Home for the Holidays," done when he was twelve, and his " Comic English Histories,"
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drawn four years later, he showed extraordinary gifts of humour and fancy . He had no
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art training outside his father's studio . In 1843 he joined the staff of
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Punch,
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drawing cartoons and a vast number of illustrations, but he retired in 185o, in consequence of the attitude adopted by that paper towards what was known as " the papal aggression," and especially towards the pope himself . In 1854 he published his "
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Continental Tour of Brown, Jones and Robinson." His illustrations to three of the Christmas Books of Charles Dickens, and to The Newcomes by Thackeray, are reckoned among his
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principal achievements; and his fanciful pictures of elves and fairies have always been general favourites . He died on the 11th of December 1883 . His most popular drawing is his cover of Punch .

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