About: Hugh Thompson (1860-1920)

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He moved to London in 1883, where he was employed by William Comyns Carr on the English Illustrated Magazine, illustrating stories by W. Outram Tristram, collected as Coaching Days and Coaching Ways in 1888. In the Spectator he created the character of Sir Roger de Coverley, an amiably ridiculous English squire in the reign of Queen Anne, who got his own book, Days with Sir Roger de Coverley, in 1886. He retired in 1907, and died on 7 May 1920 in Wandsworth. His influence can be seen on the work of C. E. and H. M. Brock.

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rdfs:label	Hugh Thompson (1860-1920)
rdfs:comment	He moved to London in 1883, where he was employed by William Comyns Carr on the English Illustrated Magazine, illustrating stories by W. Outram Tristram, collected as Coaching Days and Coaching Ways in 1888. In the Spectator he created the character of Sir Roger de Coverley, an amiably ridiculous English squire in the reign of Queen Anne, who got his own book, Days with Sir Roger de Coverley, in 1886. He retired in 1907, and died on 7 May 1920 in Wandsworth. His influence can be seen on the work of C. E. and H. M. Brock.
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abstract	He moved to London in 1883, where he was employed by William Comyns Carr on the English Illustrated Magazine, illustrating stories by W. Outram Tristram, collected as Coaching Days and Coaching Ways in 1888. In the Spectator he created the character of Sir Roger de Coverley, an amiably ridiculous English squire in the reign of Queen Anne, who got his own book, Days with Sir Roger de Coverley, in 1886. He illustrated numerous books, including Mrs Gaskell's Cranford series, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1894), Emma (1896), Sense and Sensibility (1896), Mansfield Park (1897), Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1898), and works by Shakespeare, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Hawthorne and J. M. Barrie. He designed distinctive ornamental covers for the books he illustrated, and painted colour plates for many of them, usually in ink and watercolour. He had a joint exhibition with Kate Greenaway at the Fine Art Society in 1891. He retired in 1907, and died on 7 May 1920 in Wandsworth. His influence can be seen on the work of C. E. and H. M. Brock.

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