On the glittering path of art once walked Leonard Leslie Brooke, whose cradle stood in Birkenhead, England, on September 24, 1862. His life, woven from the threads of fate and painted with colors of tragedy and triumph, is a dazzling chapter in the history of art and literature. Brooke, who came from a humble family, received his fine arts education at Birkenhead School and the prestigious Royal Academy Schools. A stumbling block in his lifelong journey was a serious illness he suffered during a trip to Italy that resulted in permanent deafness.
Despite this challenge, a passion for art ignited in Brooke. His heart found expression in the brush, and his talent as a painter came to full fruition. A valuable testament to his skill is the painting "I was always a fighter, so one more fight", exhibited at the New Gallery on Regents Street in London in 1894. This work, depicting a bareheaded 17th century soldier, was praised for the "airy life of the face and attitude." However, his skills went beyond painting. Leonard Leslie Brooke also has the talent to transfer his artistic work to the world of book illustrations. We have reproduced his works, with great care and high quality standards, as high quality art prints.
His contributions to the world of book illustrations are many and varied. He illustrated numerous works, including those of Mrs. Molesworth, and established his reputation as a leading children's book illustrator with his contribution to Andrew Lang's Nursery Rhyme Book (1897). His works - light as a feather and humorous - are a feast for the eyes and inspire a childlike joy in storytelling. His celebrated works include "Johnny Crow's Garden" (1903), "Ring O' Roses," "The Golden Goose Book," "Johnny Crow's Party" (1907), and "Johnny Crow's New Garden" (1935). Despite his successes as an artist and writer, Brooke's personal life was marked by loss and suffering. He married Sybil Diana Brooke, the daughter of his cousin, Reverend Stopford Brooke. They had two sons, one of whom, Leonard Stopford Brooke, was killed in action in Germany during World War I. Brooke left this world on May 2, 1940, but his legacy lives on in his works, which we honor and preserve as exquisite fine art prints. His artistic output is a precious gift that allows us to capture the "spirit of childhood" in the quality of our fine art prints and preserve it for posterity.
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1066672).jpg "Humpty Dumpty sate on a wall by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059531).jpg "Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top (engraving) by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "Then, I")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1064761).jpg "How Many Miles Is It to Babylon? Threescore Miles and Ten by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059534).jpg "Arthur O")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1064768).jpg "Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat, Where Have You Been? by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "The Giant and the Tailor: The Brave Little Tailor by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "Humpty Dumpty, illustration from")
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.jpg "Dunderhead found the golden goose, illustration from")
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.jpg "All the king")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1066685).jpg "Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "He took off the cover of the pot, and in fell the wolf. by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "The man in the wilderness asked me, how many strawberries grew in the sea (engraving) by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "To Market, to Market, to Buy a Fat Hog by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "The Straw, the Coal and the Bean by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "And gander didn")
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.jpg "And the Kangaroo Tried to Paint the Roses Blue, Illustration from")
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.jpg "The Ploughman Meets Merlin by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1063492).jpg "There was a piper, he")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1063448).jpg "I Love Little Pussy, Her Coat is So Warm by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "Are They Nice Apples? Yes, Very Nice, Said the Little Pig, I Will Throw You Down One by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "The Duck and the Kangaroo by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "He jumped on the butterflies back and was carried up in the air by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1500888).jpg "And the Rat, Wore a Feather in his Hat by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "To Market, to Market by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1062664).jpg "The Lion and the Unicorn Were Fighting for the Crown by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "We Met a Little Old Man. Illustration from The Golden Goose by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1497081).jpg "Illustration for Tom Thumb by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "And the eagle looked quite regal, illustration from")
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.jpg "Gay go up, and gay go down, to ring the bells of London town by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "The Only Son, c1900 by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "Little Miss Muffett: there came a big spider by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "She poured the porridge into a bowl by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "Here Mother He Shouted, Inside the Red Cow by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "When the Wolf Came He Said, Little Pig, Are You Ready by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "The churn began to roll, and rolled down hill with the pig inside by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1066691).jpg "Old Abram Brown is dead and gone, You")
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.jpg "The three bears, who lived together in a house in the woods by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1064126).jpg "The Quangle Wangle")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1063444).jpg "A Man Went a Hunting at Reigate, and Wished to Leap Over a High Gate by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "She Covered Herself Up Comfortably, and Lay There Till She Fell Fast Asleep by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059527).jpg "Three wise men of Gotham, went to sea in a bowl (engraving) by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "The Third Little Pig Built His House of Bricks by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1067055).jpg "Mr and Mrs Discobbolos by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1066690).jpg "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "And the Bear Sang a Sentimental Air, illustration from")
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.jpg "Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, from A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book, pub. 1914 by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "So the chimpanzee put the kettle on for tea, illustration from")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1064125).jpg "The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1054658).jpg "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "To Market, to Market by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1064769).jpg "As I Was Going Up Pippen-hill, Pippen-hill Was Dirty by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "The Monster Threw Tom Far Away into the Sea by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1063498).jpg "There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "There I met an old man who wouldn")
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.jpg "The Goblin and the Grocer by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1064772).jpg "If All the World Was Apple-pie, and All the Sea Was Ink by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059526).jpg "John Cook had a little grey mare (engraving) by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1054674).jpg "Jack and Jill went up the hill by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1064773).jpg "One Misty Moisty Morning, When Cloudy Was the Weather by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "Pretty Chicks and Dappled Cow, What Shall Be Our Answer Now by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "And the Cock Had a Nasty Knock, illustration from")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1063445).jpg "This is the House That Jack Built by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1664009).jpg "The Golden Goose by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "There Was an Old Sow with Three Little Pigs by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059523).jpg "What are little boys made of, made of; what are little boys made of (engraving) by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "Calico Pie by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "There was a Man by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1066676).jpg "Merry are the bells, and merry would they ring by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "The Man in the Moon Came Tumbling Down, from A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1054677).jpg "The lion and the unicorn, were fighting for the crown by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1067090).jpg "The Pobble Who Has No Toes by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1054671).jpg "The old woman and her pig by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1664013).jpg "The Golden Goose by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "There among its roots, sat a goose, with feathers of pure gold by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1063495).jpg "I had a little dog, and they called him Buff by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059536).jpg "The man in the moon, came tumbling down (engraving) by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "Even the duckling couldn")
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.jpg "And the Sheep Went to Sleep, Illustration from")
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.jpg "Goosey, Goosey, Gander, Where Shall I Wander by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1664006).jpg "The Three Bears by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "Illustration for the Tale")
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.jpg "Simpleton Took the Goose Under His Arms by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1485666).jpg "The Dong with a Luminous Nose by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1063443).jpg "Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play; The Moon Doth Shine as Bright as Day by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1063494).jpg "Higgley Piggley, my black hen by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1064759).jpg "Dame, What Makes Your Ducks to Die by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "There was a man: and they thought they had him by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1504588).jpg "Illustration for Tom Thumb by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "So They Ate and Drank Together by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1063496).jpg "To make your candles last for aye, you wives and maids give ear-o by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059524).jpg "A long-tailed pig, or a short-tailed pig (engraving) by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1494215).jpg "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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.jpg "The Man in the Moon Came Tumbling Down by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1066683).jpg "There was a frog lived in a well by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059533).jpg "To market, to market, to buy a plum bun (engraving) by Leonard Leslie Brooke")
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