Richard &#;Dicky&#; Doyle
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Richard ‘Dicky’ Doyle was born in London to a wealthy Catholic family. Richard Doyle’s father, John Doyle, was a well-known political cartoonist who anonymously published his caricatures under the pen-name “HB.” Doyle and his siblings were trained from childhood in the principles of respectability by their regimented father who requested that his children refer to him as “the Guv’nor” or “Lord John.” John Doyle was a self-made man who insisted that his sons and daughters be trained in the genteel arts of fencing, dancing, music, and literature, while also providing them with his own rigorous brand of arts training. Richard Doyle’s artistic tutelage was almost exclusively from his father who insisted Richard learn to draw from memory, a skill that required him to practice daily by drawing the busy streets of central London, and by emulating his favorite artist, Horace Vernet. Richard’s ambitious goal of becoming a history painter spurred him to watch military demonstrations so that he could study horses and groupings for his painting compositions. Durin
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&#;DOYLE, RICHARD (–), artist and caricaturist, second son of John Doyle [q. v.], was born in London in September He was educated at home. From his childhood he was accustomed to use his pencil, his instructor being his father. The teaching of the elder Doyle seems to have had for its chief objects the encouraging of a habit of close observation and a ceaseless study of nature. One result of this treatment was that his son, at a very early age, became a designer of exceptional originality. His first published work was 'The Eglinton Tournament; or, the Days of Chivalry revived,' produced in his fifteenth year. But a more remarkable effort belonging to this date is a manuscript 'Journal' which he kept in , and which is now in the print room in the British Museum. Since the artist's death it has been issued () in facsimile, with an interesting introduction by Mr. J. Hungerford Pollen; but those who wish to study this really unique effort must consult the original, the brilliancy and beauty of which but faintly appear in the copy. As the work of a boy of between fifteen and sixteen, this volume is a marvel of fresh and unfettere
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Richard Doyle, the son of the cartoonist, John Doyle, was born in London in Educated at home by his father he began having work published at the age of fifteen. The book, The Eglinton Tournament, was a great success.
In Richard produced an illustrated journal of the events that took place that year. The journal includes outings to the opera, concerts, Regent's Park Zoo, the Royal Academy, the National Gallery and the Tower of London.
In John Doyle began working for Punch, a new magazine founded by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew and Douglas Jerrold. In December, , Doyle illustrated Thomas Hood's powerful Song of the Shirt. By he was producing a third of the cartoons that appeared in Punch (only John Leech had more pictures published in the magazine). As well as producing political cartoons, Doyle designed the the famous Punch cover that was used by the magazine between to
Doyle, like his father, was a devout Roman Catholic, and in he resigned from Punch in protest over the magazine's hostility to the Pope. One cartoon produced by John Tenniel showing Lord John Russell as David attacking Cardinal Wiseman, as the Roman Goliath, particul
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Richard Doyle was a household name in Victorian England and was well known for his illustrations of everyday life and fairy subjects. In he joined the staff of Punch, for which he designed the famous cover in He created Fairy Land illustrations for many stories including Ruskin's The King of the Golden River and Thackeray's The Newcomes, Leigh Hunt's The Pot of Honey and Andrew Lang's Princess Nobody; in all he illustrated twenty-seven books become and and innumerable magazine illustrations. (Fairy Folk)
Works
Bibliography
Fairy Folk in Fairy Land. London: Peter Naham at Leicester Galleries,
Fantastic Illustration and Design in Britain, , exhib. cat. Providence, RI: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design,
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