Artist: Margaret Maitland Howard Medium: Gouache on Board Size: 10" x 13" (260mm x 320mm) Date: 1928 Signature: Signed by artist lower left Code: MaitlandHowardZebra
This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Margaret Maitland Howard.
An interesting page originally painted for inclusion in I See All: The World's First Picture Encyclopaedia .With 100,000 Pictures Of People Places and Things and an Atlas of Every Country in the World. This was a weekly part-work magazine that became a five volume encyclopaedia edited by Arthur Mee. It was published by Amalgamated Press between 1928-1930. This image appeared as page 525 in volume 1.
Margaret Maitland Howard was a well established illustrator (1898-1983).
Margaret Maitland Howard (1898 - 1983; London, UK) Margaret Maitland Howard was a painter, illustrator and draughtsman. Born in London, she studied at the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art and Royal Academy Schools, where she was a multiple silver medal-winner.
She exhibited at the RA, NEAC, SWA, RP and ROI. Just after World War II she was appointed draughtsman to the Institute of Archaeology at London University. She was Ridley Art Club member and the daughter of the artist Henry James Howard. She lived in Sutton, Surrey.
Though a 20th Century artist her best work has a romantic neo-classical style reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites and late Victorian classicists.
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