Charles Robinson was a British book illustrator who gained recognition especially for his illustrations in fairy tales and children's books. Robinson used various illustration techniques such as steel rule, colour lithography and watercolour. Over time, he developed a very individual style, which was influenced by a wide variety of art movements. Especially features of the watercolor paintings of Aubrey Beardsley and the woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, as well as a variety of influences from Japanese art can be found in his works.
Charles Robinson was born in London in 1870. His father, Thomas Robinson, was also a book illustrator and passed on his enthusiasm to his sons Charles, Thomas and William, who were all also to become book illustrators. Charles began his training at Highbury Art School and then completed a seven-year apprenticeship at a lithographic printing house in London. During his apprenticeship he was offered a place at the Royal Academy of Arts in London at the age of 22, but Robinson had to decline because he would not have been able to pay the tuition fees. However, the unintentionally missed opportunity was not to hold up his career for long. Only three years later he already had his first success as an artist. He created his first book illustrations for a new edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses". The collection of poems had already been published ten years earlier under a different name, but it was only with Robinson's 100 pen-and-ink drawings as illustrations that it received public attention. Subsequently, "A Child's Garden of Verses" enjoyed great popularity and was reprinted several times. Shortly after his breakthrough as an artist he married Edith Mary Favatt, with whom he fathered four daughters and two sons. Over the course of his career Robinson illustrated a number of well-known children's books, including new editions of "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Secret Garden" as well as the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.
With the beginning of World War I, Robinson stopped working to enlist in the military. However, as he was already forty-four years old at that time, he was not found useful in the regular troops and so he voluntarily joined the central defense militia. He survived the war without any injuries and immediately after the end of the war he started looking for work again. As a result of the world economic crisis triggered by the war, however, the market for expensive book illustrations was no longer available. Forced to work for magazines, Robinson began to work for magazines to secure his income. Only at this time did Robinson start to paint more and more. In the last years before his death in 1937 he created over 700 pictures until he finally died at the age of 67.
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.jpg "A large pigeon had flown into her face. Alice with a long neck by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Autumn from the Seasons commissioned for the 1920 Pears Annual by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "In the Beginning, The Story of Genesis by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The city mouse showed her friend the larder by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Front Cover Illustration for The True Annals of Fairyland, The Reign of King Herla, Edited by William Canton, Published 1900 by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Let the Fireworks Begin, Said the King by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1012664).jpg "\"I Wish That You Should Become the Handsomest Man in the World\" by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The King of the Mountains of the Moon by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Spring from The Seasons Commissioned for the 1920 Pears Annual by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Tearing of Papers, Breaking Rings a-twain from A Lover")
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.jpg "He saw some Tench taking their leaps by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The crab and its mother by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Dragon Killed by Saint George by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Children in the Secret Garden: Mary Lennox, Colin Craven and Dickon Sowerby by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Rich Making Merry in Their Beautiful Houses, While the Beggars Were Sitting at the Gates by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The third man pronounces judgement by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A Jackdaw and borrowed feathers by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1012997).jpg "Our Sentimental Garden: The Dutch Garden by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "\"Up lazy thing!\" said the Queen. Alice and the red queen of hearts. by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1501003).jpg "Nonsense: Man falling from his kite by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "She went to her room, where slept her son George, guarded by waiting women by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "And Down at Once the Milk-Pot Came by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-954416).jpg "Our Sentimental Garden: Autumn by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A Monk Was Told in a Vision to Take Andrew")
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.jpg "The thief appeared; which was indeed a lion by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Gathering Pineapples by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Bee, he said to her. Choose whatever you like. by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Drying the Cocoa by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1494728).jpg "Nonsense: Boy with a Strange Bird Holding an Egg by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Discussed the Point, in Great Debate by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Road Roller at Work by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "St Patrick freeing Ireland of snakes by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A Maid Picked a Quarrel with Her Needle by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The fox and the grapes by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Captain Cook Landing in Australia by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Your Characters, My Friend, I Have Long Known by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "An Autumn Interlude, c1910 by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Peacock and the Crane by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A rhyme. A child reading a book upside down by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Summer from The Seasons Commissioned for the 1920 Pears Annual by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The wolf and the lamb by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Wrote him word how ill he was by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The fox without a tail by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "There She Lay, Looking So Beautiful, illustration from Briar Rose, The True Annals of Fairyland - The Reign of King Herla, pub. by J.M. Dent & Co. Ltd., 1900 by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1495757).jpg "Pride Goes Before a Fall by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Flying Fish by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1485321).jpg "A watched pot never boils by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1013027).jpg "Our Sentimental Garden: Summer by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Untitled Watercolour, Children Underwater with an Elf by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1106019).jpg "A cottage garden by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "St George Tearing the Document to Pieces by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A Boy was Sitting under a Tree, Playing on a Rough Wooden Pipe by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Chase, Bagnigge Wells by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1634279).jpg "The Annual Fair Visits a Country Village by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The dwarf drew the bridle in the mouth of the blackbird and fixed his round eyes on her by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Art of Weaving in the Far East by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A Street in Jamaica by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "After the Earthquake by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Wanderer, c1900-1902 by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "There! this cauldron is thine by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Seizing His Golden Goblet He Proposed in Ringing Tones the Health of the Princess of the Dwarfs by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A Little Scandal, Marylebone Gardens by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Who are you He said at last. Are you a Ghost by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Loveliest of the Queen")
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.jpg "Illustration for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Old Nur looked into one of the glasses by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Orchestra, Vauxhall Gardens by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Mountains blocked the way and he climbed the mountains by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Between the two citizens a controversy grew by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1494729).jpg "Nonsense: Girl Failing to Get Up the Hill by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Off to the Gold-Fields, 1912 by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Off for a Drive in the Trap by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Most of These Animals Are Hunted by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Tay Bridge Disaster: Pieces of Wreck cast up on the Beach at Broughty Ferry by Charles Robinson")
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