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RARE “English Illustrator\" John Hassall Pen & Ink Drawing on a Postcard COA:
$299.99

Up for sale "English Illustrator" John Hassall Pen & Ink Drawing on a Postcard.  This item is authenticated By Todd

Mueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity.

was born in Walmer, Kent, and was educated in Worthing, at Newton Abbot College, After twice failing entry

to The Royal Military Academy

Sandhurst, he emigrated to Manitoba in Canada in 1888 to begin farming with his

brother Owen. He returned to London two years later when he had drawings

accepted by the Graphic. At the suggestion

of Dudley Hardy (along

with Cecil Aldin, a lifelong

friend), he studied art in Antwerp and Paris. During this time he was

influenced by the famous poster artist Alphonse Mucha. In 1895, he began work as an advertising

artist for David Allen & Sons, a career which lasted fifty years and

included such well-known projects as the poster "Skegness Is so

Bracing" (1908). Between 1896 and 1899 alone, he produced over 600 theatre

poster designs for this firm while, at the same time, providing illustrations

to several illustrated newspapers.[1] Making use of flat colours enclosed by thick

black lines, his poster style was very suitable for children's books, and he

produced many volumes of nursery rhymes and fairy stories, such as Mother

Goose’s Nursery Rhymes (1909). In 1901, Hassall was elected to the

membership of the Royal

Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Royal Society of Miniature Painters. He also belonged to

several clubs, including the Langham (until 1898), the Savage, and the London Sketch Club, of

which he was a President from 1903-1904. He belonged to the literary club The

Sette of Odd Volumes and illustrated their privately printed menus, including

one of a broken bust of Jane Austen for the

club's "Night of the Divine Jane" in 1902. In 1900, Hassall opened

his own New Art School and School of Poster Design in Kensington where he

numbered Annie Fish, Bert Thomas, Bruce Bairnsfather, H. M. Bateman and Harry Rountree among his students. The school was closed

at the outbreak of the First World War. In the

post-war period, he ran the very successful John Hassall Correspondence School.

John Hassall was the father of poet Christopher Hassall and

the printmaker Joan Hassall, OBE. He was

also the grandfather of the actress Imogen Hassall.

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