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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1494729).jpg "Nonsense: Girl Failing to Get Up the Hill by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "In the Beginning, The Story of Genesis 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 "The Rich Making Merry in Their Beautiful Houses, While the Beggars Were Sitting at the Gates by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A Monk Was Told in a Vision to Take Andrew")
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.jpg "The city mouse showed her friend the larder by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A Destroyer trying to escape from the Searchlight by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "\"She burn")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1501003).jpg "Nonsense: Man falling from his kite by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A Jackdaw and borrowed feathers by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The thief appeared; which was indeed a lion by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Tearing of Papers, Breaking Rings a-twain from A Lover")
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.jpg "Little Sister, Cried George Look at the Whole Earth by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Title Page 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 "\"In the court of love\" from \"Soul and Body\" in The Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare 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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.jpg "An Autumn Interlude, c1910 by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1013027).jpg "Our Sentimental Garden: Summer by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The King of the Mountains of the Moon 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1106019).jpg "A cottage garden by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The third man pronounces judgement by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Untitled Watercolour, Children Underwater with an Elf by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1495757).jpg "Pride Goes Before a Fall by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "An Australian Dairy Farm 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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.jpg "Autumn from the Seasons commissioned for the 1920 Pears Annual by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1111609).jpg "Cutting flowers, published 1912 by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "At Night St David Crossed the Sea by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "St Andrew by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Exegi Monumentum in The Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The contest between the North wind and the sun by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Let the Fireworks Begin, Said the King by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "St David and the Dead Boy by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1105938).jpg "Last rays of the sun, published 1912 by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Wrote him word how ill he was by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Man and His Image 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 "\"Ahem!\" Said the Mouse, with an Important Air. Alice with a Mouse and Other Animals by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Cold Arms Seized Him, and He Was Being Carried, in Spite of His Struggles, Through the Waters, in Halls of Crystal 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 "A Boy was Sitting under a Tree, Playing on a Rough Wooden Pipe by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A Christmas Dinner in New Zealand, 1912 by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Illustration for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A Little Scandal, Marylebone Gardens by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A Kauri Tree by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Prince of Wales Lunching in the Caves of Elephanta by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The unfriendly natives even refusing to give him some river-fish by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "There Was a Dispute Going on Between the Executioner, the King, and the Queen. The Cheshire Cat Looking On by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1501021).jpg "Illustration for Babes and Birds by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-929062).jpg "The Tay Bridge as it appeared on Monday, 29 December, at Ten O")
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.jpg "The crab and its mother by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-954416).jpg "Our Sentimental Garden: Autumn by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The simpleton went hunting up and down by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1494732).jpg "Nonsense: Baby, Bird, and Beetle Out for a Stroll by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The dwarfs seated at her feet were playing to her very simple tunes by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1630635).jpg "The Michelangelo Centenary Festival at Florence 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 "A Beautiful Knight Clad in Bright Shining Armour 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1111608).jpg "A cottage garden, published 1912 by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The wolf and the lamb by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Loveliest of the Queen")
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.jpg "The Peacock and the Crane by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Flying Fish by Charles Robinson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1013363).jpg "The United Kingdom by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Between the two citizens a controversy grew by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "A Garden in the Sea by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "At Work Among The Sugar-Canes, 1912 by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Patrick Was Among Several Youths That He Carried Away as Prisoners by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Children Talking at Night by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Fox and the Cock by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Gathering Pineapples by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "The Cock Takes the Pearl to the Jeweller by Charles Robinson")
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.jpg "Captain Cook Landing in Australia 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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