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Saloman van Abbe-  Founder member, The Streatham Art Society.

28/2/2024

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Saloman van Abbe died On This Day 28th Feb 1955. Resident of Thornton and Moyser Roads Streatham. He was the Founder member of The Streatham Art Society.

He was born in Amsterdam on 31 July 1883, the second son of Maurice Van Abbe (1859-1919), a diamond cutter, and his French-born wife Rachel, née Rose (1859-1952).

His earliest-recorded work appeared on the cover of the Amalgamated Press’s The Club Room Magazine in November 1913. In 1914, he contributed to The Strand Magazine and Pearson’s Magazine, and he went on to contribute to many more periodicals until shortly before his death

In 1920, when he was living in Moyser Road, Streatham, he exhibited two works at the Royal Academy.
As a book illustrator, his earliest-known work appeared in Hodder & Stoughton’s The Queen’s Gift Book in 1915. His main body of illustrative work appeared between 1943 and 1955, when he worked with a number of publishers including Blackie & Son (illustrating two books by Percy F. Westerman), Hollis & Carter, the Odhams Press, J.M. Dent & Sons, and William Collins. He was particularly well-known for his illustrations for re-issues of classic children’s novels such as Treasure Island, Little Women and Tom Brown’s Schooldays, published by J.M. Dent & Sons. In 1950 he produced the dustjacket and a coloured frontispiece for Anthony Buckeridge’s Jennings Goes to School, and he went on to do the same for a further four of the next five “Jennings” books, ending with According to Jennings in 1954.

Throughout his career Salomon lived at a variety of addresses. In the late 1920s and early 1930s he lived at 19 Thornton Avenue, Streatham Hill

One his last commissions was from Associated British Pathe in 1953 - a watercolour painting of the Coronation.
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(Source Robert J. Kirkpatrick and image Portrait of Man with Pipe, oil on canvas)
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