John Pettie (1839–93), the successful Scottish historical painter who became a Royal Academician, flourished in the London art-world, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, the British Institute, Suffolk Street, and the Grosvenor Gallery. He was also a fine illustrator.
Biographical material and commentary
Illustrations
- What sent me to sea
- The Passion Flowers of Life
- The idle shepherd-boys
- Alice Fell
- The idle shepherd-boys
- Kalapin
- Meadowside House
- The Boys of Axelford
Bibliography
Goldman, Paul. Victorian Illustration. Aldershot: Scolar, 1996; Lund Humphries, 2004.
Good Words London: Strahan, 1862–63.
Reid, Forrest. Illustrators of the Sixties. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928; rpt. New York: Dover, 1975.
Wordsworth’s Poems for the Young. With fifty illustrations by John Pettie and J. Macwhirter, with a vignette by J. E. Millais. London: Strahan, 1863.
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