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Leonard Leslie Brooke (1863-1940)


Leonard Leslie Brooke (1863-1940)

Leslie Brooke had a deliciously light touch as an illustrator, and responded well to both his own texts and those of others. His book, Johnny Crow’s Garden (1903) has become a children’s classic.
Leslie Brooke was born in Birkenhead, near Liverpool, on 24 September 1862, the son of an Irish rope and sail manufacturer. He drew from an early age, but was educated at Birkenhead School in order that he go to university. However, a three-month trip to Italy with an aunt in 1880 confirmed his determination to become an artist. (And this despite the fact that he contracted severe typhoid during the trip which left him with partial deafness.) He attended the Laird School of Art, Birkenhead (1880-82), and then went to London to study at St John’s Wood School of Art (1882-84) and the Royal Academy Schools (1884-88). While at the latter, he won the 1888 Armitage Prize for a figurative design in monochrome.

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