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Though his father insisted he enter the business sector, Rackham enrolled at the Lambeth School of Art, which he attended in the evenings after finishing a day’s work as a junior clerk in the Westminster Fire Office.

Inspired to become an artist while traveling to Australia in 1884, Rackham drew avidly during his journey, and also began painting in watercolor. Sneaking pencils into his bed to draw under the covers, he eventually resorted to drawing on his pillow case when paper was taken from him.

Presented alongside the text, his illustrations further refine and elucidate this carefully collated anthology.Home > Artists > Arthur Rackham Arthur Rackham Born: Septem| Died: SeptemBiographyīorn in Lambeth, London on September 19, 1867, Arthur Rackham was a prolific artist from a young age. Throughout his career, he developed a unique style, combining haunting humour with dream-like romance. One of the most celebrated painters of the British Golden Age of Illustration (which encompassed the years from 1850 until the start of the First World War), Rackham’s artistry is quite simply, unparalleled. The work is accompanied throughout by a series of dazzling colour and black and white illustrations – by a master of the craft Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and the pirate Captain Hook. Over a century after its initial publication it remains loved and appreciated, by adults and children alike. It first appeared in the form of a play, in 1904, and was later transformed into a novel ­– written in 1911.

Peter Pan and Wendy, or Peter Pan The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up is J. Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the Worldĭescription Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens – Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.