Austin Briggs, born 8 September 1908, was an American cartoonist and illustrator. Born in Humboldt, Minnesota he grew up in Detroit, Michigan before moving to New York City as a teenager. After working for a while at an advertising agency , he began providing illustrations for the pulp magazine Blue Book . Briggs later became an assistant to the cartoonist Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon and succeeded him on Secret Agent Corrigan . In 1940, he was commissioned to draw a Flas

Lionel Edwards was a British artist who specialised in painting horses and other aspects of British country life. He is best known for his hunting scenes but also painted pictures of horse racing, shooting and fishing. He provided illustrations for Country Life, The Sphere, The Graphic and numerous books. The son of a doctor, Edwards grew up at Benarth, a small estate in Conway, North Wales. His father, from whom he acquired his love of fox hunting, died when he was seven. Fr

Arthur William Brown was a Canadian commercial artist, most known for his work as an illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post, American Magazine, and Redbook. In the 1890s, he attended the Hamilton Art School and studied under John Sloan Gordon. At the age of 16, he was hired as a chalk plate artist for the Hamilton Spectator . He later left Hamilton and attended the Art Students League in New York City , and studied under Walter Appleton Clark , Frank DuMond , and F. R. Gru

George Stubbs ARA , born 25 August 1724, was an English painter , best known for his paintings of horses. Whistlejacket Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough . Stubbs' output includes history paintings, but his greatest skill was in painting animals (such as horses, dogs and lions), perhaps influenced by his love and study of anatomy. His series of paintings on the th

Jay Hyde Barnum, born about 1888, was an American artist, illustrator and author. He was born in Geneva, Ohio. He attended the Cleveland Art School and the School of the Art Institue of Chicago. He also studied in Woodstock, New York with Bellows, Speicher and Kroll. He made his home in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He was an author and illustrator of books for children as well as a commercial illustrator. The books he wrote and illustrated are The New Fire Engine, The Little

John Frederick Herring Sr., born 12 September 1795, was a painter , sign maker and coachman in Victorian England . He is best known for his horse portraits, racehorses with riders up, hunting scenes, and family farm animals.

Bristow Adams, born 11 1875, was an American journalist , professor , forester , and illustrator . Adams was born in Washington, D.C. He taught at Cornell University from 1914 to 1945. Adams also founded the Stanford Chaparral , the oldest humor magazine in the west, in 1899. Adams created at least two scarce large photolithographed rowing posters between 1900 and 1910, one representing Harvard and one Cornell. He is best remembered for his American college posters.

Peter Helck, born 17 June 1893, was an American illustrator who specialised in depicting racecars . Helck estimated that he had produced...

John Pettie RA , born 17 March 1839, was a painter from Edinburgh who spent most of his career in London. He became a member of the...

Stevan Dohanos, born 18 May 1907, was an American artist and illustrator of the social realism school, best known for his Saturday...