Arthur Rackham, September 19, 1867 – September 6, 1939, was an English illustrator and painter born in London. He studied at the City of London School and the Lambeth School of Art.
Rackham worked as a book and magazine illustrator and became one of the best-known British illustrators of the early twentieth century. His illustrated books include Rip Van Winkle, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, and The Romance of King Arthur.
Rackham worked in pen and ink, watercolor, and book illustration. He died in Limpsfield, Surrey, in 1939.
A Transpontine Cockney/Self-Portrait, 1934
Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 in
National Portrait Gallery, London
At This the Whole Pack Rose Up Into the Air, and Came Flying Down Upon Her, 1907
Book illustration
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1907 edition
A Mad Tea-Party, 1907
Book illustration
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1907 edition
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens illustration, 1907
Book illustration
The Little White Bird, Hodder and Stoughton, London
Titania Lying Asleep, 1909
Book illustration
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1909 edition
The Valiant Little Tailor, 1909
Book illustration
The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 1909
She Went Away Accompanied by the Lions, 1909
Book illustration
The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 1909
All-Kinds-of-Fur, c 1909
Book illustration
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Fasolt Suddenly Seizes Freia and Drags Her to One Side With Fafner, 1910
Book illustration
The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, London: William Heinemann, p 32
The Rhinemaidens Try to Reclaim Their Gold, c 1910
Pen and ink sketch
The Ring
The Romance of King Arthur, plate 330, 1917
Book illustration
The Romance of King Arthur, Macmillan, 1917
How Sir Launcelot Fought With a Fiendly Dragon, 1917
Book illustration
The Romance of King Arthur, Macmillan, 1917
Somebody Has Been at My Porridge, and Has Eaten It All Up!, 1918
Book illustration
English Fairy Tales, Macmillan, 1918