John Hassall (illustrator)

John Hassall (illustrator)

John Hassall was born in Walmer, Kent on 21 May 1868, died 8 March 1948 and was an English illustrator.

Hassall educated in Worthing, at Newton Abbot College and at Neuenheim College, Heidelberg. After twice failing entry to The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he emigrated to Manitoba in Canada in 1888 to begin farming with his brother Owen. He returned to London two years later when he had drawings accepted by the Graphic. At the suggestion of Dudley Hardy (along with Cecil Aldin, a life-long friend), he studied art in Antwerp and Paris. During this time he was influenced by the famous poster artist Alphonse Mucha. In 1895, he began work as an advertising artist for David Allen & Sons, a career which lasted fifty years and included such well-known projects as the poster "Skegness is so Bracing" (1908). Making use of flat colours enclosed by thick black lines, his poster style was very suitable for children's books, and he produced many volumes of nursery rhymes and fairy stories, now fetching high prices on eBays, such as Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes (1909.

In 1901, Hassall was elected to the membership of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colour and the Royal Society of Miniature Painters. He also belonged to several clubs, including the Langham (until 1898), the Savage, and perhaps most notably, the London Sketch Club (of which he was a President 1903-4.

In 1900, Hassall opened his own New Art School and School of Poster Design in Kensington where he numbered Bert Thomas, Bruce Bairnsfather, H. M. Bateman and Harry Rountree among his students. The school was closed at the outbreak of the First World War. In the post-war period, he ran the very successful John Hassall Correspondence School. John Hassall was the father of poet Christopher Hassall and the printmaker and OBE Joan Hassall. He was also the grandfather of the actress Imogen Hassall and grandfather (and surrogate father) to noted "green" architect, David Dobereiner.

John Hassall's most famous creation was the Jolly Fisherman in 1908 and is regarded as one of the most famous holiday advertisements of all time.

References

David Cuppleditch, "The John Hassall Lifestyle," London: The Dilke Press, 1979.ISBN 0950624411

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2005/07/20/coast05walks_stage8.shtml BBC article on "Skegness is so Bracing" and John Hassall]
* [http://www.ssplprints.com/collection.php?collid=752&ref=wiki&ad=sspl11 The official National Railway Museum print website] containing a number of Jolly Fisherman posters
* [http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/images/image/25710-popup.html Victoria & Albert Museum reproduction of "Skegness is so Bracing" artwork]
* [http://www.jollyfisherman.co.uk website for Jolly Fisherman & "Skegness is so Bracing" by John Hassall]


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