Felicity Campbell (born 1909) was a British painter and illustrator.

Biography

Campbell was born and brought up in

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in southern England and, after being home-schooled, studied art in Paris, Rome and The Hague. In London she studied lithography and illustration with

E. J. Sullivan Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869–1933), usually known as E. J. Sullivan, was a British book illustrator who worked in a style which merged the British tradition of illustration from the 1860s with aspects of Art Nouveau. Life Sullivan was th ...

. As well as working as a commercial artist, Campbell painted miniatures and illustrated a number of books. She also created works in pastels, watercolours and pencil and exhibited at the

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in London during the early 1960s and with the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers and at Walker's Gallery. For a time she lived at Guestling in Sussex.

Books illustrated

* ''Haunted Houses of Britain'' by Elliott O'Donnell, 1930. * ''The Pond'' by Marjorie Bowen, 1949. * ''The Rosemary Book'' by Marjorie Bowen, 1949. * ''Back of the North Wind'' by Marjorie Bowen, c.1952.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Felicity 1909 births Year of death missing 20th-century English women artists English illustrators English women painters People from Guestling