Antonia Yeoman born Beryl Botterill Thompson sometimes known as Anton (24 July 1907 – 30 June 1970) was an Australian-English cartoonist and illustrator.
Life
Yeoman was born in
Esk in Queensland, Australia as Beryl Botterill Thompson. Her father was an English rancher and he oversaw a sheep farm.
[ Her parents took her to visit England where her brother was born and her father died. Her mother Ida May (Cooke), who had been a Brisbane headteacher, decided to settle in the UK in ]Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
. Yeoman suffered from tuberculosis of the spine throughout her childhood. She had to use her other hand after the disease took two of her fingers. Nevertheless, she trained at the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...
and under artist and painter Stephen Spurrier.[Beryl Yeoman]
British Cartoon Archive, Retrieved 10 April 2017
Yeoman's first popular cartoons were as part of the partnership with her brother, Harold Underwood Thompson. Together they published under the name of "Anton" in the late 1930s.[Mark Bryant, ‘Yeoman, Antonia (1907–1970)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200]
accessed 10 April 2017
/ref> Yeoman worked regularly for ''The Tatler
''Tatler'' is a British magazine published by Condé Nast Publications focusing on fashion and lifestyle, as well as coverage of high society and politics. It is targeted towards the British upper-middle class and upper class, and those interes ...
'', ''Men Only
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'', ''The New Yorker
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'', London's ''Evening Standard
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In October 2009, after be ...
'', ''Private Eye
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'', ''Lilliput,'' and ''Punch
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* Punch (combat), a strike made using the hand closed into a fist
* Punch (drink), a wide assortment of drinks, non-alcoholic or alcoholic, generally containing fruit or fruit juice
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Places
* Pun ...
.''[ She was the only woman in ''Punch'''s Toby Club.][
In addition to illustrating 17 books, Yeoman also produced two collections of her own works: ''Anton's Amusement Arcade'' (1947) and ''High Life and Low Life'' (1952).][
Yeoman died in ]Chelsea
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Places Australia
* Chelsea, Victoria
Canada
* Chelsea, Nova Scotia
* Chelsea, Quebec
United Kingdom
* Chelsea, London, an area of London, bounded to the south by the River Thames
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in 1970.[
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References
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1907 births
1970 deaths
People from South East Queensland
English cartoonists
Australian cartoonists
English illustrators
British women illustrators
Australian women illustrators
British women cartoonists
Australian women cartoonists
Punch (magazine) cartoonists