Arthur David McCormick ( Coleraine 14 October 1860 – 1943) was a British illustrator and painter of landscapes, historical scenes, naval subjects, and

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McCormick was born in Ulster and, after education at local schools, went to London on the same ship with

Hugh Thomson Hugh Thomson (1 June 18607 May 1920) was an Irish people, Irish Illustration, Illustrator born at Coleraine near Derry. He is best known for his pen-and-ink illustrations of works by authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and J. M. Bar ...

. McCormick was educated at the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It o ...

in 1883–1886. He worked for ''

The English Illustrated Magazine ''The English Illustrated Magazine'' was a monthly publication that ran for 359 issues between October 1883 and August 1913. Features included travel, topography, and a large amount of fiction and were contributed by writers such as Thomas Hardy, ...

''. He was in 1892–1893 an artist on Sir Martin Conway's expedition to the Karakoram subrange of the

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and in 1895 an artist on Clinton T. Dent's expedition to the

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. His first exhibition at the

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was in 1889, and through the end of 1904 he exhibited there eleven paintings, including ''Sakar, India: moonlight'' (1895) and ''A Hunter's Shrine, Central Caucasus'' (1901). In 1927 he painted ''Head of a Sailor'' for

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for the promotion of

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* * * * * 1860 births 1943 deaths 19th-century British painters British male painters 20th-century British painters British illustrators British marine artists Irish illustrators British landscape artists People from Coleraine, County Londonderry Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society 19th-century British male artists 20th-century British male artists Artists from County Londonderry Alumni of the Royal College of Art {{UK-illustrator-stub