In the Highlands of Scotland you still feel close to fairies, goblins and other mythical creatures. This can be clearly seen in the works of the artist and illustrator Harold Robert Millar. He was born on 6 February 1869 in Thornhill. After studying art in Wolverhampton and Birmingham, he began his very successful career as an illustrator at the age of 22, mainly of fantasy and children's stories for the monthly 'Strand Magazine'. He drew and painted for fables and fairy tales. His illustrations were so popular that they were later published in four anthologies. His collaboration with the children's book author Edith Nesbit was particularly close, whose ideas he realised almost perfectly. His work for various magazines, authors and publishers ensured that he was very busy throughout his life. Until the 20th century he remained an extremely popular illustrator. Besides being a graphic artist, he also worked as a painter, preferring railway motifs. Harold Robert Millar died in Surrey on 20 December 1942.
His lithographs - a forerunner of offset printing - are very naturalistic throughout, the figures are moving, with much expression and sometimes pathos, in keeping with the taste of the time.
Sometimes with quick, simple 'brush' strokes, sometimes very finely worked out and filigree, sometimes monochrome, sometimes in colour, his graphics bring the imaginative stories to life.
He captured his second passion, the technology of the then emerging industrial age, in painted pictures: he depicted locomotives, steam engines and industrial plants in bold perspectives and naturalistic execution. Despite, or perhaps even because of the seemingly so sober depiction, the viewer still feels a touch of the fascination and magical attraction that the powerful, steaming, hissing machines exerted at that time.
Even today, prints of his works are still very popular and are sold successfully.
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-992177).jpg "Theft of the \"Orloff\" stone by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "Illustration by H. R. Millar for the poem")
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.jpg "The Death of the Khalifa by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "An Electric Locomotive by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "Muscle, Spades and Picks by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "Thermionic valves in the Marconi wireless telegraphy station at Cefn Du, near Caernarfon, Wales by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "The Flamme Pacific, 2-10-0 Locomotive that Hauled the Brussels to Ostend Express Service on Belgian State Railways, the Most Powerful Locomotive in Europe of Its Time by Harold Robert Millar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1499713).jpg "A Steam Carriage Which Has Run Off the Road and Overturned by Harold Robert Millar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1019407).jpg "The Jew and the Afghan Were Put into a Sack by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "Stopped Just in Time by Harold Robert Millar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1324093).jpg "Steam and Electric Locomotives on Britain")
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.jpg "A Signal Gantry by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "The Most Powerful Locomotive in Europe by Harold Robert Millar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1634161).jpg "Opening the Parcels by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "The Wife of an Engine-Driver Helps to Push by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "Kings Cross Station by Harold Robert Millar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1497254).jpg "On the road by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "A Mountain Railway in the Andes by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "A Beautiful Express Locomotive by Harold Robert Millar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1509518).jpg "On the Racing Track by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "Getting Up Speed by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "The Tablet Exchange by Harold Robert Millar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-992176).jpg "Indian Police and their methods by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "Building an Engine by Harold Robert Millar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1320020).jpg "Steam locomotive on the Great Northern Railway taking up water by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "An Old Way of Signalling by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "A Rotary Snow Plough by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "A Mountain Railway by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "The Nordic Express by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "Crossing the Forth Bridge by Harold Robert Millar")
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.jpg "The Great Central Express by Harold Robert Millar")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1497255).jpg "Difficulties of driving in the tropics by Harold Robert Millar")
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