Richard Doyle, 1824-1883
Nationality: English
Date of Birth: September 1824
Place of Birth: London
Place of Death: London
Identity:
Richard Doyle, an illustrator, printmaker and painter, was the son of the Irish painter and printmaker John Doyle.
Life:
In 1843 Doyle began to work for Punch, producing illustrations satirising the current fashion for medievalism. He resigned in 1850 when the magazine opposed the re-establishment of a Roman Catholic hierarchy in Britain.
In 1854 he became one of the eighteen members of the Folio Sketching Club, a society instituted in February of that year by members of the failing Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Doyle illustrated a number of works by John Ruskin and Leigh Hunt, as well as Thackeray's The Newcomes (1854-55). He also painted fantastical fairy landscapes e.g. The Triumphal Entry: A Fairy Pageant (early 1880s; National Gallery, Dublin).
Bibliography:
Montalba, A. R., The Doyle Fairy Book, London, 1890; Hambourg, D., Richard Doyle: His Life and Work, London, 1948; Trevelyan, G. M., The Seven Years of William IV: A Reign Cartooned by John Doyle, London, 1952; Engen, R., Richard Doyle, Stroud, 1983; Johnson, Lewis, 'Richard Doyle', The Grove Dictionary of Art Online, ed. L. Macy, http://www.groveart.com (accessed 22 February 2002).