I'm glad you like them. Of all the new discoveries I've made in this series of videos he is definitely in my top 3. I just don't understand why he isn't a household name.
So much to learn about once again. I can’t wait to research these fascinating illustrators and their unique work. Thanks for doing what you do here. It’s a real treat. Take care and stay well.
A great list of illustrators. Full of life, humanity and humor. But, in my opinion, there's something very special about Beauville. Thank you for this presentation.
Hello and I try to keep personal opinion out of the videos as much as possible, but I absolutely agree about Beuville - a truly remarkable and expressive talent.
Hi and my thanks as ever. It's good to know the effort is appreciated. Quite a few viewers have suggested going into print, but it's not really my thing - I'd need to find a publisher for one thing and my experience in that regard hasn't been great to date. I did recently start writing for a journal called Illustrators, and although it's an ageeable thing to do if I'm honest I find the demands of writing to be read rather than for commentary somewhat challenging.
Thank you very much - with each of your videos I learn about artists I hadn't known of - your work is a marvelous distraction from the all-too-depressing news of the day.
Hello and I greatly appreciate your more than usually positive comment. Certainly making these videos is my way of staying focussed on something other than the current state of the planet. If you feel the same about watching them that's so much the better.
Thank you - I'm particularly taken with G Beuville - all of the many sides to his talent - it's clear that his theatrical work was part and parcel of his illustrator's perspective, it is indeed difficult to turn the pages! - I'm especially fond of his dragons ~
Hi again. I'm pretty sure it's the presence of Beuville that has given that unsung heroes instalment more than usual views to date. I can't remember the last time I've been so taken with a new (to me at least) discovery. And I'm pleased it seems to be an opinion shared by quite a few others.
Thank you so much for all the time & research you must put into these amazing videos! I discovered your channel a few months ago and have been working my way through them all. I look forward to a new video every couple of weeks - they are so interesting and inspiring I need to go back to the beginning and start again! I enjoy them so much I have shared your channel with the rest of my design team - hopefully you will have a few new followers. Living and working in America, it's also nice to hear a fellow northern accent once in a while! Keep up the great work!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel and its content. And particular thanks for sharing - I need all the viewers/subscribers I can get. And there I was thinking I had cunningly concealed my Mancunian origins by talking posh. (joke)
Yet another set of delightful illustrations with interesting biographies, delivered in a compact but amiably stylish manner, which always leaves me waiting for more. Thank you SO much, Pete.
Hello and that's music to my ears. I do see myself (hopefully) as someone who lets more people know that these talented illustrators exist. Then it's up to the viewer to discover more about the ones they are interested in.
@@petebeard thanks for the reply! Your videos are an invaluable resource for self taugh artists and illustrators like myself or even any person who is interested in the illustrators that had an influence on the current zeitgeist. It's amazing how many of the illustrators stylistic influence I recognised, but would've never found out about or researched without these videos, also it's admirable how thouroughly you have researched these forgotten artists lives. A real service to these great people, seeping with passion!
I know it would be a bit of time and perhaps expense, but a book on all of these amazing illustrators would be so inspirational to have for us 'amateur illustrators' and fans.
Hello and several viewers have expressed similar interest. The trouble with 'real' books is you need a publisher (far from easy) and the production of such a volume would take a hell of a long time. It's a nice idea - if only for my vanity - but it's a bit late in the day for me to embark on such a project. I am considering a series of e-books though, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
I smile as soon as I hear your theme music. I sure wish I could draw as well as Thomas Heath Robinson, but that will never be. Thank you as always for displaying the work of such fine artists.
Hello again and thanks as usual for the comment. Regarding being able to draw like any of the Heath Robinson's that's a fantasy for most of us. But think about all the successful illustrators who are also not conventionally gifted, but have some other quirky appeal.
I really enjoyed this, thanks. What an artistic powerhouse the Heath-Robinson family was! All of them, extraordinary artists. For me the discovery of Georges Beuville in this video is an exciting and wonderful moment - I love his work and like you, I hadn't heard of him before, wonderful stuff. Eileen Soper's wildlife works are gorgeous - what a treat!
Hello again and thanks again. Other than good ld fashioned bad luck I can't for the life of me understand why he's so much more obscure than his brothers. And Beuville - how did I get this old and not know about him?
Hello again, and when viewer feedback starts to indicate I'm scraping the botton of the barrel is probably when I'll finish the series. So far so good I think.
@@petebeard sorry only just seen this, it seems you are VERY far from barrel scraping! Even though I don’t always enjoy all of every artists images I still consider myself privileged to get to see them. Have you done Felicien Reps? Or do his images break too many “community standards”?
Hello again, and even I don't actually like quite a few of the illustrators I feature, but I didn't want the series to just be 'Pete's favourite pictures'. And sadly, although obviously a person of interest Felicien Rops was born too early to qualify for inclusion. There's no reason you (or anybody else) would know it but I limit myself to those born between 1850 and 1910 for the unsung series. But he might come in handy in some other context so thanks for the suggestion.
Hello and I must admit that although like many of my generation I had long been aware of the famous 5 it was only recently I realised who had drawn them. Her etchings are particularly absorbing I think.
Hi again and my thanks as ever. And thanks for the Drabble connection. When I saw his name I thought 'I know that name in some connection' and now you have made me realise why.
What is there left to say Pete. Your careful commentaries draw attention to the most salient aspects of each illustrator you feature with no fuss. You have assuredly mastered this particular communication medium! It seems almost everyone enjoys these.
Hello again and that's a more than usually encouraging comment. I must admit it was with the greatest reluctance that I felt obliged to narrate my videos, but it does seem most viewers are happy with the content and - to my surprise - delivery. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
Beuville's skeleton playing the piano!!!! I grabbed a screenshot of that for sure. All his looser, gestural works are just so exquisitely funny and wonderful. And spot on human. I just now noticed there's a little funny face on the skeleton's pelvis (in that image)! LOL! To think I would never have known this artist if not for you, Pete. You give us real, honest gifts. Thanks again, as always.
Hello and your enthusiastic response to this video is exactly the kind of response that keeps me making them. When I happened upon Beuville's work (lucky accident) I couldn't believe just how talented and visually expressive he was, or how I'd never previously heard of him. So glad you feel the same.
@@petebeard Glad to oblige! :D I'll make more effort to do so then, and I think I speak for many here, since the last thing we want is for you to stop! Be assured I look forward to and watch them all, even if I don't comment but again, I'll do so more since you are so appreciative and welcome them. Beuville (I keep wanting to spell it "BeAuville", as in good place) just leaped off the screen for me this time. I admire the skill of realistic artists but adore the 'loose but sincere' comical. How we know these are humans (or animals or trees??) even as they are barely realistic is one of our intended programmed 'gifts' I believe. So why reproduce art that just mirrors what's obvious and instead go after the subliminal. Or put this way: in the movie/script "A Thousand Clowns" (avail here on YT), Murray says he wants his nephew Nick to know 'all the cartoons people make by being alive'. And why he wasn't born a chair. haha Watch if you haven't, the play is one brilliant visual cartoon. Later! Edit: just checked the movie and they leave out the part where he talks about all the cartoons people make, which is too bad because it helped justify why Nick was worth getting a job for. So maybe find the script and read it? I still like the movie too (as per my comments there!).
Hello again, and I feel I should add I wasn't going for the sympathy vote regarding comments, however much I do value them. So don't feel obliged. And many thanks for the movie. I had never heard of it but it's now bookmarked and I'll watch this weekend.
@@petebeard No, I know that. It was more a mental note to myself to be more supportive just because I know you read and respond to your commenters, which is so rare these days, it should be encouraged, really. We are still so isolated and any kind of positive give and take is like treasure (given how other social media can become if not just obnoxious nonsense, then intentional harm). Commenters here, however, are a lovely bunch. I doubt any would think this. ;) Let me know if you liked the movie.
Hello again and as I think I said in the video, if I could have found enough material I would have made a video just about Beuville's work. A revelation for me. And thanks for your frequent positive comments - always a tonic in bleak times.
Another thrilling instalment, Mr Beard. Thank you. The Sopers, pere et les deux filles, brought back memories of their Hertfordshire home "Wildings" that was found a tad derelict and filled with 100s of their artworks in the early 1990s when both daughters died in hospital within months of each other. Their work has a sad air of withdrawal and retreat from the world. Impossible to understand how they dealt with their very worldly publishers. Their technical mastery is unrivalled. All 3 learned etching and printing and Eva followed the 2 talented Doughty sisters in producing the famed Royal Worcester porcelain birds. I very much look forward to your episode on George.
Hello again. I'm ashamed to admit that I'd never heard of any of the Sopers before making the video. Although I had been aware of the Famous Five illustrations peripherally from childhood. I was more of a Beano kid to be honest. Feel free to ignore my intrusiveness but are you a collector? I only ask as you seem to have an immense knowledge of this subject.
@@petebeard Ditto ... I have never heard of many of the illustrators to whom you have wonderfully given a new lease of life and interest. WELL DONE, Mr Beard. Also I stick to English and English US illustrators. European illustrators have different and, to me, alien and unattractive sensibilities. Indeed I am a collector. It is a passion and one I have greedily indulged since my teens. I was brought up in a cultural desert without books on various RAF camps along the Suez Canal after the 2nd World War. It was when we were brought back to the US Air Force camp in Burtonwood (near Warrington in England) that I saw a book and fell madly in love with its illustrations (Pinocchio) - particularly those of the so-called Dent Classics whose illustrators are so dear to me - the Brock brothers and the Robinson brothers (only the younger 2 of whom have Heath as part of their surnames including Thomas in this episode - as an aside Charles similarly got into lots of money problems and died near indigent.) I am of an age when I met many of the later generations of the illustrators. I wrote to them expressing my admiration for their parent's or grand-parent's work and met them. I have stories galore. I find the world of illustration truly magical. My greatest pleasure comes when I get to buy the original artwork from a favourite book. An unbelievably rare event. Many authors and their illustrators hated each other - from Dickens to the present day. Unsurprising given that there is the inevitable and strong possibility of envy of the visual depiction taking over that of the original words.
Hello again and thanks for satisfying my curiosity.If it's any inducement to stay tuned Charles and Henry Brock are coming in a couple of unsung's time.
@@petebeard Your presentation of the material is inducement enough. I eagerly look forward to each instalment - truly. Charles and Henry Brock had 2 other brothers who illustrated. They shared the studio Charles built onto their home and shared props. I find Charles' work the one to watch and find him extraordinary. Little is written about them and their correspondence in the various bequests demonstrate yet again how difficult were dealings with publishers. There was a ding-dong about the illustration of the 5 'Leatherstocking' (Hawkeye) novels by Fennimore Cooper. There are 2 volumes of his illustrated Lamb 'inscribed' to his daughter on Abe with a German dealer. The date is a mystery as is the edition. They are NOT 1st editions and have coloured frontispieces that are NOT by Charles which were beautifully produced in the so-called first editions by electrotypes and not letterpress as in the accompanying drawings. In the final edition there are 8 or 10 volumes and illustrations are by other artists. Charles illustrated 2 books of comic verse by a school friend J R Johnson - The Parachute and Other Bad Shots (1891) and The Knight of Grazinbrook which I have never seen or found. The Parachute is like a full-paged comic book and is a hoot as well as having penwork of great artistry. Up there with your Beano and my Topper. I have 3 variant artworks for the book and there is pencil work as well as pen and ink. They are the same size as the published work (which is unusual.) They give me great pleasure under the magnifying glass. Very best regards. Gerard
Hello again and I hope you won't find my coverage of the Brocks too superficial. All I can say is thank heavens they signed their work but even now I'm not sue I've got the 'who did what and when' accurate. And I knew about the other brothers and sisters but as you say they are poorly represented. And another thanks for your appreciation.
Hi again and thanks as usual for your appreciation. I must confess I knew her work from childhood but only now could put a name to the illustrations. Live and learn, as they say.
Oh boy, Georges Beuville is amazing, just the color, his way of choosing to paint in shadowed tones, I wonder how he was able to make those choices without the benefit of multiply overlays, I guess it's just down to observation, but I like all aspects of his work, his looseness is never just loose, there's structure and detail in it, what a great discovery.
Agree, 6:46 is pretty amazing. Guessing since Mont Saint Michel in the distance is close to where Beuville was born in Calvados it was painted from *memory* . Photos of the surrounding sea and landscape around Mont St. Michel shown a similiar ambient tonal atmospheric effect. Hence, the loose minimum brush technique. Close to being a tote painting. Wish I could paint like that. Albert Marquet, French Fauve painter has some nice urban scenes done in silvery tones.
Hello and I'm really pleased that Beuville seems to have captured the imagination of quite a few regular viewers including yourself. For me, he's one of the truly great discoveries of the series.
Hello and thanks for the comment. Unfortunately we are all at the mercy of events we have no control over. I suppose the best spin I can put on it is that losing your livelihood would be preferable to being killed. What a world...
Blimey! Who knew there were three Heath Robinsons? Well you obvously but I had no idea. Another marvellous treasure trove for which many thanks are again due :-)
Hi again. If I'd been Thomas I'd have been pretty hacked off when my younger brothers overtook me. But then I'm a seething mass of resentment and maybe he wasn't.
@@petebeard definately! I've seen 4 of your videos so far and they are all great: good story, not too long, good voice, great images... just very informative and thus really great to watch and learn from! :)
Thank you Pete for another wonderful video. Isn't it strange about the families where art is so strong that the siblings share different paths and fates? Poor THR, who I think had wonderful drawing skills, the Detmold brothers and Francis X both had early demises. The comment below about the Brock brothers and the Soper sisters seems to be another couple of examples. Life is so strange, whether one has talent or not. But you please keep these fine videos coming!
Hi Albert. I was going to send an e-mail in reply to your last but realised I had nothing to report of any interest, so I'll wait until something interesting happens. Don't hold your breath. And yes you make a valid point. Rudolph and Gus Dirks are another case in point and they are up soon in the series. And I might just do an instalment on illustration's more eccentric figures - naturally Blaine and Sime would fit nicely. Alberto Martini another. So long for now and revel in your new home.
Hello and thanks a lot for the Li-An connection, although I've already been using it on occasion.And I can't tell if you're joking or not with the reference to the 'smoking' girl. It's the handle of her parasol, but it does look remarkably like she's got it in her mouth.
@@petebeard Hello, you're welcome. Hopefully, viewers to your channel would follow up on their favorite illustrator using the link. I was going to 'interpret' the 'pipe' with white trail leading to the satyr but after reading the illustration is part of a WWI serial comic book "Golden Eyes" and Her Hero "Bill" and, the dog "Uncle Sam" is defending her from the Bad German Hun Hugo Von Schwatzenburg who is trying to seduce her... what more can be said? (See note below) To call this story absurb would be polite.
As a *general note* , Nell Brinkley in her illustration, Unsung Heros no. 7, 7:45 , is using a classical device Botticelli employed in his painting 'Primavera' where the central figure Venus is framed by an halo shaped opening in the trees. The opening is a negative image of a pair of lungs. Spring equates to fresh air. So, Brinkley's parasol 🌂 is a pair of lungs to breathe in whatever it is she is inhaling thru the pipe. Michelanglo in his Sistine Chapel 'God separating Land from Water' shows him coming out a renal kidney duct similar to a kidney stone forming in a supersaturated solution of calcium and oxalic acid. Hence, land/stone from water. Michelanglo suffered from chronic kidney stones and gout. Nell Brickley might be revealing something personal also.
Agreed - but I can't get to the bottom of why he's the least appreciated of the three brothers. It's not as if he was conspicuously less talented. Just dumb luck I suppose.
@@Amanita._.Verosa._. As you may be aware, Anne is known as the Cinderella of the Bronte (Bell) sisters. I find Wildfell Hall wonderful. When I began my interest in the Robinson brothers in the early 1960's Charles was the brother to watch. Tastes change. Thomas got deeply involved in religion towards the end of his life and executed large triptychs in oils at great expense to himself. I find them extraordinary but very much not to my taste. He was interested in Christianity from an early age - William's only son entered a Benedictine Order. Detmold's surviving twin brother dabbled in religion and the spirit world. So did other artists who lost fathers and brothers in WW1. The explorer Percy Fawcett who disappeared with his son in the Amazon left behind many manuscripts trying to establish a new religion. The line in the play Peter Pan describing Death as the Great Adventure was removed following the devastation of the trenches. As the texts of books date, so do their illustrations ... sadly. So wonderful that Mr Beard is giving them new life. He is to be congratulated.
@@neillgj I agree Mr. Beard is to be highly congratulated. Every time he makes a video on these wonderful illustrators whose work the public is little aware. ❤️ And thank you for the information. Alot of it I didn't know. :)
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. My own story? A 40 year career as a mediocre illustrator, with about 15 years also spent teaching the subject at a UK university. Now retired and making videos so I don't go senile. If you haven't seen it there's some work on the video 'pete beard portfolio'.
@@petebeard Well Pete seeing the quality of the work in all these videos makes many of us feel mediocre Im sure, keep up the wonderful job you are doing with these videos , its a public service.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the video. I had a look at some of your own work and I was absolutely amazed by the quality of your drawing. I hope you will not be offended if I say there are echoes of Heinrich Kley. And I hope your talent is bringing you the income you deserve. You certainly should have many more subscribers and views.
*Thanks* for another very well made presention from tight to loose illustration styles. They're all good. 5:21 is that Paul McCartney in the shroud? 6:46 amazingly nice painting. Georges Beuville style is orginal. Eduard Thony is very good. Want to say better than Toulouse-Lautrec in some ways.
@@petebeard Amore * 6:46 believe it was done done from memory. Wish I could paint like that. *"Its a crap shoot."* Told to me by a printer on what the final graphic's piece would look like. No matter how much skill, talent, experience an illustrator has there's no guarantee how the public will take to it. Or, remember them. Lurchi booklets showed a lizard wearing the German brand Salamander boots was for kids to occupy them while their mother picked shoes for them. Was it the quality of Heinrich Kley. No. But, I still have fond memories of the cartoon. * "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. When yours balls hit the floor lika B-52, datsa amore."
I have to disagree with your strange comment. The unpublished were largely not talented enough or didn't have what it takes to succeed in a challenging profession. Unsung refers to their status now - not in their lifetime.
the dear horse/ on the opening of this show: I know that/ things are "REALLY BAD!"/ when the poor horse is spooked to death's threshold. I can only guess, those background silhouettes are: galloping wolves. But. Be whatever it may be, I feel for the horse/ and, that's a lot to derive from one cartoon equine! Respectfully submitted for your consideration Gregg Oreo Long Beach Ca Etats Unis
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Beauville’s illustrations were a joy to see. So expressive and full of life.
I'm glad you like them. Of all the new discoveries I've made in this series of videos he is definitely in my top 3. I just don't understand why he isn't a household name.
So happy to see another posting. Love them all.
Hello Rick and my gratitude for your continuing appreciation of the channel.
So much to learn about once again. I can’t wait to research these fascinating illustrators and their unique work.
Thanks for doing what you do here. It’s a real treat.
Take care and stay well.
Hello again and my gratitude for your enduring support and appreciation. Such comments keep me motivated.
A great list of illustrators. Full of life, humanity and humor. But, in my opinion, there's something very special about Beauville. Thank you for this presentation.
Hello and I try to keep personal opinion out of the videos as much as possible, but I absolutely agree about Beuville - a truly remarkable and expressive talent.
Excellent way to start my Monday, finding a new video here. Thank you sir, as always, beautifully done.
Hello and my thanks as ever for your ongoing appreciation.
Thank you, that was a wonderful episode!
Hello again … so happy to see another of your wonderful videos . The more I watch, the more I learn. Thank you Mr Beard . Truly ☺️
Btw: I’m a writer as well and think this content surely deserves to be in print. I’d buy all titles !
Hi and my thanks as ever. It's good to know the effort is appreciated. Quite a few viewers have suggested going into print, but it's not really my thing - I'd need to find a publisher for one thing and my experience in that regard hasn't been great to date. I did recently start writing for a journal called Illustrators, and although it's an ageeable thing to do if I'm honest I find the demands of writing to be read rather than for commentary somewhat challenging.
Thank you for another excellent and informative episode, Pete. The quality of your videos is unrivaled.
Hi and thanks as ever for your appreciation. I'm glad to say there's no sign I'll run out of subjects just yet.
beuville illustrations are incredibly expressive and "messy" i love them
In his case I don't think 'genius' is too strong a word.
Thank you very much - with each of your videos I learn about artists I hadn't known of - your work is a marvelous distraction from the all-too-depressing news of the day.
Hello and I greatly appreciate your more than usually positive comment. Certainly making these videos is my way of staying focussed on something other than the current state of the planet. If you feel the same about watching them that's so much the better.
Thank you - I'm particularly taken with G Beuville - all of the many sides to his talent - it's clear that his theatrical work was part and parcel of his illustrator's perspective, it is indeed difficult to turn the pages! - I'm especially fond of his dragons ~
Hi again. I'm pretty sure it's the presence of Beuville that has given that unsung heroes instalment more than usual views to date. I can't remember the last time I've been so taken with a new (to me at least) discovery. And I'm pleased it seems to be an opinion shared by quite a few others.
Thank you so much for all the time & research you must put into these amazing videos! I discovered your channel a few months ago and have been working my way through them all. I look forward to a new video every couple of weeks - they are so interesting and inspiring I need to go back to the beginning and start again! I enjoy them so much I have shared your channel with the rest of my design team - hopefully you will have a few new followers. Living and working in America, it's also nice to hear a fellow northern accent once in a while! Keep up the great work!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel and its content. And particular thanks for sharing - I need all the viewers/subscribers I can get. And there I was thinking I had cunningly concealed my Mancunian origins by talking posh. (joke)
Yet another set of delightful illustrations with interesting biographies, delivered in a compact but amiably stylish manner, which always leaves me waiting for more. Thank you SO much, Pete.
Hello and that's another very flattering comment. It makes producing this series an even greater pleasure.
I'm hopelessly addicted to this channel.
Hello and that is music to my ears. With luck still many more to come.
Always very informative and interesting. Thankyou once again for these superb videos.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. It matters to me.
Thank you so much for this. This is so very informative on so many levels. Going to read up more on these people now :)
Hello and that's music to my ears. I do see myself (hopefully) as someone who lets more people know that these talented illustrators exist. Then it's up to the viewer to discover more about the ones they are interested in.
It boggles the mind how we can live in a world where such amazing content has so little recognition. Keep up the awesome work
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. I intend to keep making them as long as viewers keep watching them.
@@petebeard thanks for the reply! Your videos are an invaluable resource for self taugh artists and illustrators like myself or even any person who is interested in the illustrators that had an influence on the current zeitgeist. It's amazing how many of the illustrators stylistic influence I recognised, but would've never found out about or researched without these videos, also it's admirable how thouroughly you have researched these forgotten artists lives. A real service to these great people, seeping with passion!
I can only wholeheartedly thank you again for your wonderful work.
Hello and that's more than good enough for me. Thanks.
I know it would be a bit of time and perhaps expense, but a book on all of these amazing illustrators would be so inspirational to have for us 'amateur illustrators' and fans.
Hello and several viewers have expressed similar interest. The trouble with 'real' books is you need a publisher (far from easy) and the production of such a volume would take a hell of a long time. It's a nice idea - if only for my vanity - but it's a bit late in the day for me to embark on such a project. I am considering a series of e-books though, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
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A bit of Leslie Neilson humor from the 80s
I smile as soon as I hear your theme music. I sure wish I could draw as well as Thomas Heath Robinson, but that will never be. Thank you as always for displaying the work of such fine artists.
Hello again and thanks as usual for the comment. Regarding being able to draw like any of the Heath Robinson's that's a fantasy for most of us. But think about all the successful illustrators who are also not conventionally gifted, but have some other quirky appeal.
Art, and particularly illustration, has been a fascination since childhood, so I was delighted to discover this channel. Subbed!
Me to! Also at age 70, I've become interested in doing illustrations again. Much Thanks to Pete Beard.
Beautifully narrated and again, so very interesting. Thank you!
Hello again, and I see you are watching others too. That's good to know.
Just what I needed on my day off from work! Yay!
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. Glad you liked it.
I really enjoyed this, thanks. What an artistic powerhouse the Heath-Robinson family was! All of them, extraordinary artists. For me the discovery of Georges Beuville in this video is an exciting and wonderful moment - I love his work and like you, I hadn't heard of him before, wonderful stuff. Eileen Soper's wildlife works are gorgeous - what a treat!
Hello again and thanks again. Other than good ld fashioned bad luck I can't for the life of me understand why he's so much more obscure than his brothers. And Beuville - how did I get this old and not know about him?
@@petebeard My thoughts exactly.
Thank you. Four terrific illustrators, each with a distinctive style. Fabulous.
Hello again, and when viewer feedback starts to indicate I'm scraping the botton of the barrel is probably when I'll finish the series. So far so good I think.
@@petebeard sorry only just seen this, it seems you are VERY far from barrel scraping! Even though I don’t always enjoy all of every artists images I still consider myself privileged to get to see them. Have you done Felicien Reps? Or do his images break too many “community standards”?
Hello again, and even I don't actually like quite a few of the illustrators I feature, but I didn't want the series to just be 'Pete's favourite pictures'. And sadly, although obviously a person of interest Felicien Rops was born too early to qualify for inclusion. There's no reason you (or anybody else) would know it but I limit myself to those born between 1850 and 1910 for the unsung series. But he might come in handy in some other context so thanks for the suggestion.
Adding my voice to others who have commented Beuville fantastic. The line, the washes, the simple use of colour . Thanks
Hello again and I'm glad you like Beuville's work. He was a real revelation to me and I hoped others would be just as impressed as I was.
I love Eileen Soper's illustrations, she is one of my favorite illustrators.
Hello and I must admit that although like many of my generation I had long been aware of the famous 5 it was only recently I realised who had drawn them. Her etchings are particularly absorbing I think.
A very nice video, and the mention of Phil Drabble at the end, took me back to my childhood, as he was often on Animal Magic.
Hi again and my thanks as ever. And thanks for the Drabble connection. When I saw his name I thought 'I know that name in some connection' and now you have made me realise why.
What is there left to say Pete. Your careful commentaries draw attention to the most salient aspects of each illustrator you feature with no fuss. You have assuredly mastered this particular communication medium! It seems almost everyone enjoys these.
Hello again and that's a more than usually encouraging comment. I must admit it was with the greatest reluctance that I felt obliged to narrate my videos, but it does seem most viewers are happy with the content and - to my surprise - delivery. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
An oasis of pleasure. Thank you Pete.
Hi and thanks as usual. Beuville was this instalment's revelation for me.
It's been a rough week, and your video is a welcome distraction. Thank you.
Hello again and I never thought my videos would be considered therapy, but it's kind of nice that they are. Thanks.
@@petebeard calming music, soothing narration, and pleasant illustrations. What's not to like?
Beuville's skeleton playing the piano!!!! I grabbed a screenshot of that for sure. All his looser, gestural works are just so exquisitely funny and wonderful. And spot on human. I just now noticed there's a little funny face on the skeleton's pelvis (in that image)! LOL! To think I would never have known this artist if not for you, Pete. You give us real, honest gifts. Thanks again, as always.
Hello and your enthusiastic response to this video is exactly the kind of response that keeps me making them. When I happened upon Beuville's work (lucky accident) I couldn't believe just how talented and visually expressive he was, or how I'd never previously heard of him. So glad you feel the same.
@@petebeard Glad to oblige! :D I'll make more effort to do so then, and I think I speak for many here, since the last thing we want is for you to stop! Be assured I look forward to and watch them all, even if I don't comment but again, I'll do so more since you are so appreciative and welcome them. Beuville (I keep wanting to spell it "BeAuville", as in good place) just leaped off the screen for me this time. I admire the skill of realistic artists but adore the 'loose but sincere' comical. How we know these are humans (or animals or trees??) even as they are barely realistic is one of our intended programmed 'gifts' I believe. So why reproduce art that just mirrors what's obvious and instead go after the subliminal. Or put this way: in the movie/script "A Thousand Clowns" (avail here on YT), Murray says he wants his nephew Nick to know 'all the cartoons people make by being alive'. And why he wasn't born a chair. haha Watch if you haven't, the play is one brilliant visual cartoon. Later! Edit: just checked the movie and they leave out the part where he talks about all the cartoons people make, which is too bad because it helped justify why Nick was worth getting a job for. So maybe find the script and read it? I still like the movie too (as per my comments there!).
Hello again, and I feel I should add I wasn't going for the sympathy vote regarding comments, however much I do value them. So don't feel obliged. And many thanks for the movie. I had never heard of it but it's now bookmarked and I'll watch this weekend.
@@petebeard No, I know that. It was more a mental note to myself to be more supportive just because I know you read and respond to your commenters, which is so rare these days, it should be encouraged, really. We are still so isolated and any kind of positive give and take is like treasure (given how other social media can become if not just obnoxious nonsense, then intentional harm). Commenters here, however, are a lovely bunch. I doubt any would think this. ;) Let me know if you liked the movie.
TS 10:03 nice *dragons* & ....those wildlife illustrations are stunning ... just beautiful 👍👍👍👍👍 *THX PETE*
Hello again and as I think I said in the video, if I could have found enough material I would have made a video just about Beuville's work. A revelation for me. And thanks for your frequent positive comments - always a tonic in bleak times.
Georges Beuville is one of my favorites! His work is impressive.
Hello and he's now one of mine too. Despite my advancing years I had never seen his work until recently. What a guy!
Another thrilling instalment, Mr Beard. Thank you. The Sopers, pere et les deux filles, brought back memories of their Hertfordshire home "Wildings" that was found a tad derelict and filled with 100s of their artworks in the early 1990s when both daughters died in hospital within months of each other. Their work has a sad air of withdrawal and retreat from the world. Impossible to understand how they dealt with their very worldly publishers. Their technical mastery is unrivalled. All 3 learned etching and printing and Eva followed the 2 talented Doughty sisters in producing the famed Royal Worcester porcelain birds. I very much look forward to your episode on George.
Hello again. I'm ashamed to admit that I'd never heard of any of the Sopers before making the video. Although I had been aware of the Famous Five illustrations peripherally from childhood. I was more of a Beano kid to be honest. Feel free to ignore my intrusiveness but are you a collector? I only ask as you seem to have an immense knowledge of this subject.
@@petebeard Ditto ... I have never heard of many of the illustrators to whom you have wonderfully given a new lease of life and interest. WELL DONE, Mr Beard. Also I stick to English and English US illustrators. European illustrators have different and, to me, alien and unattractive sensibilities.
Indeed I am a collector. It is a passion and one I have greedily indulged since my teens.
I was brought up in a cultural desert without books on various RAF camps along the Suez Canal after the 2nd World War. It was when we were brought back to the US Air Force camp in Burtonwood (near Warrington in England) that I saw a book and fell madly in love with its illustrations (Pinocchio) - particularly those of the so-called Dent Classics whose illustrators are so dear to me - the Brock brothers and the Robinson brothers (only the younger 2 of whom have Heath as part of their surnames including Thomas in this episode - as an aside Charles similarly got into lots of money problems and died near indigent.)
I am of an age when I met many of the later generations of the illustrators. I wrote to them expressing my admiration for their parent's or grand-parent's work and met them. I have stories galore. I find the world of illustration truly magical. My greatest pleasure comes when I get to buy the original artwork from a favourite book. An unbelievably rare event. Many authors and their illustrators hated each other - from Dickens to the present day. Unsurprising given that there is the inevitable and strong possibility of envy of the visual depiction taking over that of the original words.
Hello again and thanks for satisfying my curiosity.If it's any inducement to stay tuned Charles and Henry Brock are coming in a couple of unsung's time.
@@petebeard Your presentation of the material is inducement enough. I eagerly look forward to each instalment - truly. Charles and Henry Brock had 2 other brothers who illustrated. They shared the studio Charles built onto their home and shared props. I find Charles' work the one to watch and find him extraordinary. Little is written about them and their correspondence in the various bequests demonstrate yet again how difficult were dealings with publishers. There was a ding-dong about the illustration of the 5 'Leatherstocking' (Hawkeye) novels by Fennimore Cooper.
There are 2 volumes of his illustrated Lamb 'inscribed' to his daughter on Abe with a German dealer. The date is a mystery as is the edition. They are NOT 1st editions and have coloured frontispieces that are NOT by Charles which were beautifully produced in the so-called first editions by electrotypes and not letterpress as in the accompanying drawings. In the final edition there are 8 or 10 volumes and illustrations are by other artists.
Charles illustrated 2 books of comic verse by a school friend J R Johnson - The Parachute and Other Bad Shots (1891) and The Knight of Grazinbrook which I have never seen or found. The Parachute is like a full-paged comic book and is a hoot as well as having penwork of great artistry. Up there with your Beano and my Topper. I have 3 variant artworks for the book and there is pencil work as well as pen and ink. They are the same size as the published work (which is unusual.) They give me great pleasure under the magnifying glass.
Very best regards.
Gerard
Hello again and I hope you won't find my coverage of the Brocks too superficial. All I can say is thank heavens they signed their work but even now I'm not sue I've got the 'who did what and when' accurate. And I knew about the other brothers and sisters but as you say they are poorly represented. And another thanks for your appreciation.
As always... professionally done, informative, inspiring and so over the top. Tnx!
Hello again and your positive comment is welcome as ever. Thanks for watching.
Elleen Soper's work is so grateful! Such a wonderful video and great info!
Hi again and thanks as usual for your appreciation. I must confess I knew her work from childhood but only now could put a name to the illustrations. Live and learn, as they say.
A wonderful series.keep up the good work. Greatly appreciated!!!!
Hello and thanks a lot. I'll keep making them as long as viewers keep watching them. There are many more in the pipeline.
Oh boy, Georges Beuville is amazing, just the color, his way of choosing to paint in shadowed tones, I wonder how he was able to make those choices without the benefit of multiply overlays, I guess it's just down to observation, but I like all aspects of his work, his looseness is never just loose, there's structure and detail in it, what a great discovery.
Agree, 6:46 is pretty amazing.
Guessing since Mont Saint Michel in the distance is close to where Beuville was born in Calvados it was painted from *memory* . Photos of the surrounding sea and landscape around Mont St. Michel shown a similiar ambient tonal atmospheric effect. Hence, the loose minimum brush technique. Close to being a tote painting.
Wish I could paint like that.
Albert Marquet, French Fauve painter has some nice urban scenes done in silvery tones.
Hello and I'm really pleased that Beuville seems to have captured the imagination of quite a few regular viewers including yourself. For me, he's one of the truly great discoveries of the series.
This channel is an absolute marvel. Fantastic work!
Hello and thanks a lot for your favourable comment. It's good to know Im getting through to viewers.
ok...I'm trapped...I've seen 3 of your offerings and by gum sir, you do this very well!
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. I hope you become seriously addicted to the channel...
The Great War really seemed to wipe out a lot of careers, especially all the turn-of-the-century illustrators who were booming for a minute.
Hello and thanks for the comment. Unfortunately we are all at the mercy of events we have no control over. I suppose the best spin I can put on it is that losing your livelihood would be preferable to being killed. What a world...
Blimey! Who knew there were three Heath Robinsons? Well you obvously but I had no idea.
Another marvellous treasure trove for which many thanks are again due :-)
Hi again. If I'd been Thomas I'd have been pretty hacked off when my younger brothers overtook me. But then I'm a seething mass of resentment and maybe he wasn't.
@@petebeard I have no brothers so the world is my oyster in terms of folk I can resent for overtaking me. Hahahahaha
Thank you, Pete! Always fun to see what you come up with! All these artists living into their eighties: Is that really a good thing? ;)
Ask me again when (if) I hit 80...
These series are stunning!! Tnx
Hello and I'm pleased you think so.
@@petebeard definately! I've seen 4 of your videos so far and they are all great: good story, not too long, good voice, great images... just very informative and thus really great to watch and learn from! :)
Hi Pete.... Soper gets my vote on this one, thanks for another informative video.
Hi John. Interesting response - I always play the 'which one will John Collado pick?' game and my money would have been on Heath Robinson.
Thank you for doing these.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Fantastic video, talent truly flowed in the Robinson family. Too bad that the fame wasn't equally distributed between the 3 brothers.
Hello and yes I really can't undertand why he's so less well known. If it was me I'd have been intensely resentful.
Thank you Pete for another wonderful video. Isn't it strange about the families where art is so strong that the siblings share different paths and fates? Poor THR, who I think had wonderful drawing skills, the Detmold brothers and Francis X both had early demises. The comment below about the Brock brothers and the Soper sisters seems to be another couple of examples. Life is so strange, whether one has talent or not. But you please keep these fine videos coming!
Hi Albert. I was going to send an e-mail in reply to your last but realised I had nothing to report of any interest, so I'll wait until something interesting happens. Don't hold your breath. And yes you make a valid point. Rudolph and Gus Dirks are another case in point and they are up soon in the series. And I might just do an instalment on illustration's more eccentric figures - naturally Blaine and Sime would fit nicely. Alberto Martini another. So long for now and revel in your new home.
i love this thank you
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment.
Thanks Pete! As great as always.
As usual you are more than welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.
A very nice video with a lot of great information
Thank's a lot for your work
Greetings from Jordan
Hello and I'm very pleased you enjoyed it. And greetings back to you from England. Thanks for watching.
Keep them coming! Very inspirational!
Hello and thanks a lot. There are many more to come, with a bit of luck.
*Li-an* is a very good French blog having extensive images of Beuville's book illustrations.
Also, links.
Hello and thanks a lot for the Li-An connection, although I've already been using it on occasion.And I can't tell if you're joking or not with the reference to the 'smoking' girl. It's the handle of her parasol, but it does look remarkably like she's got it in her mouth.
@@petebeard
Hello, you're welcome.
Hopefully, viewers to your channel would follow up on their favorite illustrator using the link.
I was going to 'interpret' the 'pipe' with white trail leading to the satyr but after reading the illustration is part of a WWI serial comic book "Golden Eyes" and Her Hero "Bill" and, the dog "Uncle Sam" is defending her from the Bad German Hun Hugo Von Schwatzenburg who is trying to seduce her...
what more can be said?
(See note below)
To call this story absurb would be polite.
As a *general note* , Nell Brinkley in her illustration, Unsung Heros no. 7, 7:45 , is using a classical device Botticelli employed in his painting 'Primavera' where the central figure Venus is framed by an halo shaped opening in the trees. The opening is a negative image of a pair of lungs. Spring equates to fresh air.
So, Brinkley's parasol 🌂 is a pair of lungs to breathe in whatever it is she is inhaling thru the pipe.
Michelanglo in his Sistine Chapel 'God separating Land from Water' shows him coming out a renal kidney duct similar to a kidney stone forming in a supersaturated solution of calcium and oxalic acid. Hence, land/stone from water.
Michelanglo suffered from chronic kidney stones and gout. Nell Brickley might be revealing something personal also.
Thank you again ! Greece
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thank you, cool illustators and their pics.
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Yay!! Mr. Heath Robinson! Love his work so much❤️
Agreed - but I can't get to the bottom of why he's the least appreciated of the three brothers. It's not as if he was conspicuously less talented. Just dumb luck I suppose.
@@petebeard That was my thought too. It's the same with the Bronte sisters, few know Anne.
@@Amanita._.Verosa._. As you may be aware, Anne is known as the Cinderella of the Bronte (Bell) sisters. I find Wildfell Hall wonderful. When I began my interest in the Robinson brothers in the early 1960's Charles was the brother to watch. Tastes change. Thomas got deeply involved in religion towards the end of his life and executed large triptychs in oils at great expense to himself. I find them extraordinary but very much not to my taste. He was interested in Christianity from an early age - William's only son entered a Benedictine Order. Detmold's surviving twin brother dabbled in religion and the spirit world. So did other artists who lost fathers and brothers in WW1. The explorer Percy Fawcett who disappeared with his son in the Amazon left behind many manuscripts trying to establish a new religion. The line in the play Peter Pan describing Death as the Great Adventure was removed following the devastation of the trenches. As the texts of books date, so do their illustrations ... sadly. So wonderful that Mr Beard is giving them new life. He is to be congratulated.
@@neillgj I agree Mr. Beard is to be highly congratulated. Every time he makes a video on these wonderful illustrators whose work the public is little aware. ❤️ And thank you for the information. Alot of it I didn't know. :)
Beuville! Wow! Just wow!
Hello and that was pretty much my reaction too, when I first came across his remarkable work. Talk about a neglected genius...
Wonderfull video as always!
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Just wonderful!
...and thanks again.
superb as always thankyou
Hello and many thabks for your appreciative comment. I think Beuville in particularly has been well received by a lot of viewers - and me.
Very cool. Thank you!
Спасибо большое за просмотр. Я рад, что вам понравилось.
I so look forward to these episodes . Thank you for bringing light to these wonderful artist. And you sir, what is your history?
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. My own story? A 40 year career as a mediocre illustrator, with about 15 years also spent teaching the subject at a UK university. Now retired and making videos so I don't go senile. If you haven't seen it there's some work on the video 'pete beard portfolio'.
@@petebeard Well Pete seeing the quality of the work in all these videos makes many of us feel mediocre Im sure, keep up the wonderful job you are doing with these videos , its a public service.
Tank you so much....a tresor
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the video. I had a look at some of your own work and I was absolutely amazed by the quality of your drawing. I hope you will not be offended if I say there are echoes of Heinrich Kley. And I hope your talent is bringing you the income you deserve. You certainly should have many more subscribers and views.
Thank you
And thankyou for your continued support and appreciation.
Wonderful!!!!
Hi and thanks a lot. Beuville was a real revelation for me.
playlists to watch
Fantastic
Glad you liked it. This seems to be one of the most popular instalments yet uploaded.
Lovely!
Hello and thanks a lot. Good to know viewers appreciate the content.
I have a watercolour by George Soper, a great painter of horses.
Hello and he's waiting patiently in line to be featured.
@@petebeard thank you !
*Thanks* for another very well made presention from tight to loose illustration styles. They're all good.
5:21 is that Paul McCartney in the shroud?
6:46 amazingly nice painting. Georges Beuville style is orginal.
Eduard Thony is very good. Want to say better than Toulouse-Lautrec in some ways.
Hello and thanks as usual for your appreciation, Beuville - what can I say? I'm in love.
@@petebeard
Amore *
6:46 believe it was done done from memory. Wish I could paint like that.
*"Its a crap shoot."*
Told to me by a printer on what the final graphic's piece would look like.
No matter how much skill, talent, experience an illustrator has there's no guarantee how the public will take to it. Or, remember them.
Lurchi booklets showed a lizard wearing the German brand Salamander boots was for kids to occupy them while their mother picked shoes for them. Was it the quality of Heinrich Kley. No. But, I still have fond memories of the cartoon.
* "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore.
When yours balls hit the floor lika B-52, datsa amore."
Wow gracias por toda esta info :)
Olá e muito obrigado por sua gratidão.
Does anyone have any information on a late 19th C illustrator called Edouard Vieux?
Not me - sorry.
in the playlist, Na lista de reprodução, en la lista de reproducción
10!
Thanks a lot - unless of course you mean 10 out of 100!
Unsung? If they were published enough times, they were SUNG. Feel free to recap but the unsung ones were mostly unpublished.
I have to disagree with your strange comment. The unpublished were largely not talented enough or didn't have what it takes to succeed in a challenging profession. Unsung refers to their status now - not in their lifetime.
the dear horse/ on the opening of this show: I know that/ things are "REALLY BAD!"/ when the poor horse is spooked to death's threshold. I can only guess, those background silhouettes are: galloping wolves. But. Be whatever it may be, I feel for the horse/ and, that's a lot to derive from one cartoon equine! Respectfully submitted for your consideration Gregg Oreo Long Beach Ca Etats Unis
And once more, my friend...
Beuville 👁️👄👁️
A towering talent.
Thank you, that was a wonderful episode!
Hello and thanks again for watching and commenting.