Artist and cartoonist. Born Cambridge and studied art. In WW2 at the start of 1942 he was in the Royal Engineers in Singapore which fell to the Japanese and he was taken prisoner and spent the rest of the war as a POW. During this time, close to death himself, he documented the appalling conditions in drawings which he kept hidden and then published on release. This self-portrait dates from 1943.
Many people know his illustrations for the St Trinian's books.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Ronald Searle
Designed by architect Chris Roche. The railway sleepers and track, symbolic o...
Drawing master, social reformer and inventor. Wikipedia's page differs significantly from the Oxford Dictionary of National Bigraphy. They agree that he was born in Kent and trained as a painter. H...
Australian graffiti artist with the Twitter/Instagram handle @ketones6000.
Born Aberdeen. Winner of the Prix de Rome. Other work in London includes the 1963 Joy of Life group in the Hyde Park fountain, pictured by Ornamental Passions.
Literary hostess and patron of the arts. Died in a clinic at Tunbridge Wells. Her Wikipedia page gives much information about her life and confirms that she was born on 6 June 1873 as Ottoline Vio...
Born Blackheath. Illustrator and painter. He was closely associated with the Old Watercolour Society, becoming president in 1871. He also achieved fame as an illustrator of Shakespeare’s works and ...
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