Robinson, William Heath
Robinson, William Heath (1872–1944),British illustrator, youngest of the three talented Robinson brothers. He collaborated with his two brothers on Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (1899). A volume of Andersen's tales appeared in 1913, Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, with 16 tipped‐in colour illustrations by W. H. Robinson. Trained at the Islington School of Art (1887), he initially planned on being a landscape artist, but then followed in his brothers' footsteps. He developed a talent for humorous drawings, often contributing designs of dotty contraptions to periodicals. Although he began under the influence of Beardsley and Art Nouveau, he experimented with various styles and the use of light, sometimes backlighting the subjects. He also used the circular frame for his illustrations. He was one of the most versatile of British illustrators.
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