Harry Rountree
Harry Rountree | |
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| Born | 26 January 1878 |
| Died | 26 September 1950 (aged 72) St Ives, Cornwall, England |
| Occupation | Illustrator |
| Spouse |
Stella Stewart (m. 1906–1950) |
| Children | 2 |
Harry Rountree (26 January 1878[1] – 26 September 1950)[2][3] was a prolific illustrator working in England around the turn of the 20th century. Born in Auckland, New Zealand,[4] he moved to London in 1901, when he was 23 years old.[3]
Life
Harry Rountree was born in 1878 to Irish banker, Stephen Gilbert Rountree (5 November 1851 - 9 September 1918)[5] and Julia Bartley (24 December 1851 - 29 October 1930), the niece of prominent New Zealand architect Edward Bartley[6].
Rountree was educated at Auckland’s Queen’s College.
Rountree is noted for his illustrations of British golf courses and golfing caricatures.[7] Rountree moved to England in 1901 intending to forge a career on the then-flourishing magazine and book market. For two years he attempted to commissions. In 1903, the editor of the magazine 'Little Folks' gave Rountree a commission to illustrate a story. It was after this commission that Rountree's career began to flourish and he became in demand illustrator. Rountree's work features in publications such as; The Strand, Cassell's, Pearson's, The Sketch, The Illustrated London News, Playtime, Little Folks, and many others.[8]
During the First World War, he served as a captain in the Royal Engineers.[3]
Rountree produced well-liked cartoons for the magazine Punch from 1905 to 1939, and also created advertising, posters and book illustrations for writers such as P. G. Wodehouse and Arthur Conan Doyle. [9]
Death
Largely forgotten, Rountree died in St Ives, Cornwall in 1950. He was survived by his wife and two children.
Selected works
- S. H. Hamer, Harry Rountree, Archibald's Amazing Adventure, Or, The Tip-top Tale (London: Cassell and Co., 1905)
Notes
- ^ 1939 England and Wales Register
- ^ "Deaths". The Times. London, England. 27 September 1950. p. 1.
ROUNTREE; On Sept. 26, 1950, at the West Cornwall Hospital, Harry Rountree, Artist, of St. Ives and Saltings, Lelant, Cornwall, beloved husband of Stella and father of Gilbert and Lynda.
- ^ a b c "Mr. Harry Rountree". The Times. London, England. 27 September 1950. p. 6.
- ^ 1911 England Census
- ^ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rountree-186
- ^ http://localhistorybartley.blogspot.com/2015/05/julia-bartley-and-steven-rountree.html
- ^ Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin, Harry Rountree (illus). The Golf Courses of the British Isles, published by London: Duckworth, 1910, via Internet Archive
- ^ http://www.bpib.com/rountree.htm
- ^ http://punch.photoshelter.com/gallery/Harry-Rountree-Cartoons/G0000w42TuJoZgTg/
External links
Works by or about Harry Rountree at Wikisource- Works by Harry Rountree at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Harry Rountree at Internet Archive
- Harry Rountree at Library of Congress, with 7 library catalogue records (3 "from old catalog")
- An article and full bibliography by Michael Pirie is contained in Studies in Illustration nos 59-63 published by the Imaginative Book Illustration Society www.bookillustration.org
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