SUSAN HERBERT
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| THE HOURS (BURNE JONES) |
NAPOLEON I ON HIS IMPERIAL THRONE (INGRES) |
PORTRAIT OF A LADY, POSSIBLY CATHERINE HOWARD (HOLBEIN) |
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| MADAME MOITESSIER (INGRES) |
GARBO |
"THROW IT IN THE FIRE!" |
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| LOUISE BROOKS |
VICKY |
VANITY |
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| TO BE THUS IS NOTHING; BUT TO BE SAFELY THUS |
FERRARI (CASABLANCA) |
RENAULT (CASABLANCA) |
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| SADIE THOMPSON |
TRANSFIGURATION |
MISTRESS AND MAID (VERMEER) |
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| WE, WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE |
"WHERE NEXT?" |
"LES SYLPHIDES" |
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| "LA VIE PARISIENNE" |
IMMOLATION |
ADA |
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| THE FAMILY OF NICHOLAS II |
"...SO SMALL A THING" |
MIDDLE EARTH (STING) |
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| "HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, KID" |
ST ANNE WITH PATRON SAINTS |
APPLE BLOSSOMS |
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| SUMMER - TISSOT |
CARNATION, LILY, LILY, ROSE (JOHN SINGER SARGENT) |
PSYCHE (WATERHOUSE) |
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| MADONNA AND CHILD (FRA FILIPPO LIPPI) |
THE GARDEN COURT |
FRANCIS DE NANTES (DAVID) |
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| MADAME DE SENONNES (INGRES) |
ALLEGORY OF LOVE - HAPPY UNION (VERONESE) |
THE BOWER MEADOW (ROSETTI) |
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| THE BLESSED DAMOZEL (JOHN LISTON BYAM SHAW) |
THE DECLARATION OF LOVE (DE TROY) |
YOUNG LADIES - DETAIL (CRANACH) |
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| QUEEN VICTORIA (WINTERHALTER) |
ROSAMUND SARGENT (RAMSAY) |
TRUST ME (MILLAIS) |
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| MRS GARNETT (BARBER) |
MADAME DAVID (DAVID) |
BOY WITH FRUIT (CARAVAGGIO) |
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| MARQUISE D'ORVILLIERS (DAVID) |
ANNE-MARIE-LOUISE THELUSSON (DAVID) |
BROKEN VOWS (PHILIP HERMOGENES CALDERON) |
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| THE CORONATION OF NAPOLEON - DETAIL (DAVID) |
CECILE BOCHET (INGRES) |
IN THE SPRINGTIME (ELEANOR FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE) |
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| JAMES WYATT AND HIS GRANDDAUGHTER (MILLAIS) |
THE SONNET (WILLIAM MULREADY) |
THE FOUR CHILDREN OF MARIA THERESA (ZOFFANY) |
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| TABLEAU |
REGINA |
WOMAN IN A GARDEN SPRINGTIME (MONET) |
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| JULIET |
INGE |
ODETTE |
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| LA FILLE MAL GARDEE |
HOLLYWOOD CHIC |
DECO ELEGANCE |
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| MRS OSWALD (ZOFFANY) |
THE KISS (FRANCESCO HAYEZ) |
ALEXANDRA, PRINCESS OF WALES |
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| SELF PORTRAIT (LOUISE ELISABETH VIGEE LE BRUN) |
MISS LELIA ROZE |
JOHN AND BERNARD (LORD JOHN STUART AND LORD BERNARD STUART) - VAN DYCK |
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| SIBELLA |
HOW WEARY, STALE, FLAT AND UNPROFITABLE SEEM TO ME ALL THE USES OF THIS WORLD |
CARMEN MIRANDA |
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| COUNTESS VARVARA ALEKSEYEVNA MUSINA-PUSHKINA (WINTERHALTER) |
EDWARD G |
GANDALF, THE GREY AND WHITE |
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| DOUBLE INDEMNITY |
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN |
THE ENGLISH PATIENT |
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| DRACULA |
MARIE ANTOINETTE (MARTIN MYTENS) |
NOW VOYAGER (BETTE DAVIS) |
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| NAPOLEON III (WINTERHALTER) |
QUEEN VICTORIA WITH PRINCE ARTHUR (WINTERHALTER) |
DREAMERS (ALBERT MOORE) |
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| GASLIGHT |
MARRIAGE A LA MODE - THE COUNTESS'S LEVEE (HOGARTH) |
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE (LEIGHTON) |
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| LOVE LOCKED OUT |
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Much-loved for her innovative depictions of cats, Susan Herbert’s witty subject matter has been an enormous publishing success and has gained her a reputation as the world’s most instantly recognisable cat artist.
Born in 1945, Susan Herbert did not undergo any formal artistic training before embarking on a career as an artist. Her first job was working at the box office for the Royal Shakespeare Company and during this time, described by Susan Herbert as filled with ‘hideous part-time jobs’, she used her spare moments to draw and paint as often as she could.
Susan Herbert’s only period of artistic guidance came in 1973 when she gained a place at Oxford and studied for a term at the Ruskin School. Although now famous for her witty anthropomorphic cats, her early work contained rodents as the subject matter. The creatures were often illustrated on storyboards depicting scenes from operas and Shakespeare’s plays.
In 1990, following fifteen years of hard work and limited success, Thames and Hudson published The Cats Gallery of Art that was a publishing phenomenon. She is now a leading and prolific cat artist, with nine books in print.
Susan Herbert has been working on her latest release Movie Cats intermittently for the last four years. At present she is working on an entire storyboard of the film Casablanca. With 49 images in total, this should be a remarkable sight and one we hope to display at our annual Louis Wain and the Summer Cat Show in 2007.
books
Movie Cats
Cats Gallery of Art
Impressionist Cats
Mediaeval Cats
Opera Cats
Pre-Raphaelite Cats
Shakespeare Cats
The Cats History of Western Art
The Diary of a Victorian Cat
