Arthur John Balliol Salmon (1868 – 1953) was a British artist particularly noted for his illustrations and his work in pencil, chalk and pastels. He was one of the twenty leading illustrators selected by Percy V. Bradshaw for inclusion in his ''Art of the Illustrator''.

Biography

Cover for The Graphic of 1907-01-12 by Balliol Salmon

Cover for The Graphic of 1907-06-08 by Balliol Salmon

Salmon was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England on 1 June 1868. He was the son of Henry Curwen Salmon and Ellen Fennell, who had married on 6 May 1857. Balliol Salmon studied for a year under Fred Brown at the

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, where his fellow pupils were F. H. Townsend and Fred Pegram. Salmon continued his training, together with Fred Pegram at

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ateliers. He trained at the

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in Paris. He lived in Glasgow and London. He pursued a career as teacher and illustrator, notably for

The Graphic ''The Graphic'' was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas's company Illustrated Newspapers Ltd. Thomas's brother Lewis Samuel Thomas was a co-founder. The premature death of the latt ...

. Houfe wrote in his ''Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists'' (1996) that Balliol Salmon was one of the best pencil and chalk artists to work for the press in the Edwardian era. Balliol Salmon was chosen by art instructor Percy V. Bradshaw as one of the artists to illustrate "The Art of the Illustrator", the seminal collection of twenty portfolios demonstrating six stages of a single painting or drawing by twenty different artists and published in 1918.

Selected illustrations

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- Illustrated London News, 25 May 1912 (Gouache) * ''Love Letter'', 1908 Ink, watercolour and gouache * ''Portrait of Joan Bright''. * Portrait of

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on board White Star

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1911

Book illustrations for the series of books by
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Salmon was Angela Brazil's favourite among her illustrators with his ''lovely elongated schoolgirls''. He illustrated seven of her books in the UK. Different illustrators were used for different markets. Freeman states that Salmon's illustrations were jettisoned for comic cartoons in France and winsomeness in America. In the following list PG indicates whether the book is available on Project Guthenberg. The list is based on searches on

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library hub discover, checked against the bibliography in Sims and Clare's ''Encyclopedia of Girls' School Stories''.

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External links

National Portrait Gallery

Victoria and Albert Museum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Balliol Salmon, J.M 1868 births 1953 deaths 20th-century British artists Académie Julian alumni Alumni of the Westminster School of Art British illustrators Artists from Manchester People from Northiam 20th-century British male artists