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DOYLE, RICHARD (1824-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 462 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOYLE, See also:RICHARD (1824-1883) , See also:English artist, son of See also:John Doyle, the caricaturist known as " H. B." (1797-1868), was See also:born in See also:London in 1824. His See also:father's " See also:Political Sketches " took the See also:town by See also:storm in the days of See also:Lord See also:Grey and Lord See also:Melbourne. The son was an extremely precocious artist, and in his " See also:Home for the Holidays," done when he was twelve, and his " Comic English Histories," See also:drawn four years later, he showed extraordinary gifts of See also:humour and See also:fancy. He had no See also:art training outside his father's studio. In 1843 he joined the See also:staff of See also:Punch, See also:drawing cartoons and a vast number of illustrations, but he retired in 185o, in consequence of the attitude adopted by that See also:paper towards what was known as " the papal aggression," and especially towards the See also:pope himself. In 1854 he published his " See also:Continental Tour of See also:Brown, See also:Jones and See also:Robinson." His illustrations to three of the See also:Christmas Books of See also:Charles See also:Dickens, and to The Newcomes by See also:Thackeray, are reckoned among his See also:principal achievements; and his fanciful pictures of elves and fairies have always been See also:general favourites. He died on the 11th of See also:December 1883. His most popular drawing is his See also:cover of Punch.

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