Cecil Aldin

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Cecil Aldin
Portrait of Cecil Aldin and his dog
Born(1870-04-28)28 April 1870
Slough, England
Died6 January 1935(1935-01-06) (aged 64)
London, England
EducationNational Art Training School
Known forPainting

Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (28 April 1870 – 6 January 1935), was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life. Aldin executed village scenes and rural buildings in chalk, pencil and also wash sketching. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and a Master of Fox Hounds, and many of his pictures illustrated hunting.[1] Aldin's early influences included Randolph Caldecott and John Leech.

Early life and career

Chiddingstone

Born in

Cadbury's advertising.[citation needed][3][4] Aldin was commissioned by The Pall Mall Budget in 1894 to illustrate the serialisation of stories from Rudyard Kipling's The Second Jungle Book
.

At the invitation of the fine genre painter, Walter Dendy Sadler Aldin stayed at Chiddingstone where he made close friends with Phil May, John Hassall and Lance Thackeray and along with them, Dudley Hardy and Tom Browne, founded the London Sketch Club. The birth of his son and daughter inspired a series of nursery pictures which together with his large sets of the Fallowfield Hunt, Bluemarket Races, Harefield Harriers and Cottesbrook Hunt prints brought him much popularity. This was enhanced by his ever expanding book and magazine illustrative work. He joined the

Sulhamstead Abbots from 1913 to 1914 and was church warden of St Mary's church.[7]

World War One

A Land Girl Ploughing (1918)(Art.IWM ART 2618)

At the outbreak of the

Vimy Ridge
in 1917, which affected him deeply for many years and had a profound effect on his style of work.

Later life

After the war Aldin spent much of his time organising pony and dog shows, particularly on Exmoor, where he followed the Devon and Somerset Staghounds. He continued to paint, often large equestrian portraits and completed numerous magazine and book illustrations. In the 1920s he added further prints of hunting scenes to create a series of "The Hunting Countries" as well as concentrating on his ever popular studies of his own and visiting dogs. He published a short series of fully illustrated books in 1923, Old Manor Houses and Old Inns. A series of prints depicting Old Inns, Old Manor Houses and Cathedrals was also created.

In 1930 Aldin retired to live in the

Palma and elsewhere on Mallorca while continuing to paint and etch, producing some of his best work, including illustrations for The Bunch Book (1932), about Bunch, a Sealyham Terrier by James Douglas. Travelling back to England for a visit in January 1935 he suffered a heart attack whilst still at sea. When his ship docked, Aldin was rushed to the London Clinic but could not be saved.[2]

Gallery

  • "Sir Michael of Sheppey"
    "Sir Michael of Sheppey"
  • The Fallowfield Hunt
    The Fallowfield Hunt
  • Pastel drawing of sleeping dogs
    Pastel drawing of sleeping dogs

Bibliography

  • Hutchinson, H. N. Prehistoric Man and Beast (London: Smith Elder, 1896)
  • Praed, W. Every-day Characters (London: Kegan Paul, 1896)
  • Buckland, J. Two Little Runaways (London: Longmans, 1898)
  • Spurr, H. A. A. Cockney in Arcadia (London: Allen, 1899)
  • Aldin, C. C. W. Two Well-worn Shoe Stories (London: Sands, 1899)
  • The Cecil Aldin hunting diary (1900)
  • Whyte-Melville, G. J. Roy's Wife (London: Thacker, 1900)
  • Hayward, G. M. The Other One (London: Pearson, 1901)
  • Aldin, C. C. W. Ten Little Puppy Dogs (London: Sands, 1902)
  • Emanuel, W. A Dog Day (London: William Heinemann, 1902)
  • Aldin, C. C. W. A Sporting Garland, Sands, 1902)
  • Emanuel, W. The Snob (London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1904)
  • Aldin, C. C. W. A Gay Dog (London: William Heinemann, 1905)
  • Emanuel, W. The Dogs of War (London: Bradbury, 1906)
  • Heiberg, Neils. White-ear and Peter: the story of a fox and a fox-terrier (London: Macmillan, 1912).
  • Byron, May. Cecil Aldin's merry party (London: Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913).
  • Maeterlinck, Maurice. My Dog (London: G. Allen, 1913).
  • Waylett, Richard. The Doggie Book (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1913]).
  • Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty: the autobiography of a horse (London: Boots the Chemists, 1916).
  • Emanuel, Walter Lewis. A dog day; or, The angel in the house (New York: E. P. Dutton & co., 1919).
  • Aldin, C. Old Inns (London: Heinemann, 1921)
  • Aldin, C. Old manor houses (London: W. Heinemann, 1920)
  • Aldin, C. Cathedrals of England (London Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1924)
  • Hare, Kenneth. Roads and vagabonds (London Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1930)
  • Aldin, C. Time I Was Dead: Pages from My Autobiography (C. Scribner's sons, 1934)

References

  1. ^ a b Bryant, Sonia. "Cecil Aldin". Stella & Rose's Books. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-1-904537-87-8
    .
  3. ISBN 9781317863335
    .
  4. ^ "Cadbury's Cocoa, poster by Cecil C. Windsor Aldin". Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
  5. ISBN 978-0-9500418-9-6
    .
  6. ^ "The Life and Sleeping Partners of Cecil Aldin (1870–1935) « Vulpes Libris". WordPress.com. 16 May 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
  7. ^ Kelly's Directory

Further reading

  • Heron, Roy. Cecil Aldin, the Story of a Sporting Artist (Henry Holt & Company, 1982)

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