Saloman van Abbe, resident of Thornton and Moyser Roads Streatham. He was the Founder member of The Streatham Art Society He was born in Amsterdam. In 1920 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.(Source Robert J. Kirkpatrick)
Ekkehard Altenburger, Scupltor responsible for the Civilian War Memorial in Streatham.
A German Sculptor and Streatham resident at the time. John Brown writes "The Memorial is made of Kilkenny limestone and the surface shows a transition from a roughly hewn to a polished finish"
Daphne Constance of the Oaks 40 Gleneagle Road. The daughter of Hugh Allen a painter and Catherine Selina Allen,
An artist who achieved recognition at an early age as a painter and illustrator. Throughout her career she painted religious subjects and Her father was the painter Hugh Allen who was a close friend of John Ruskin and in fact died after catching a chill on his way home from Ruskin's house, "Brantwood" on Lake Conniston. Her grandfather was Ruskin's publisher
Joyce Lankester Brisley of 108 Lewin Road. She is most noted for writing and illustrating the Milly-Molly-Mandy series, which were first printed in 1925 by the Christian Science Monitor. The second of three daughters of George Brisley, a pharmacist, of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex. Brisley's sisters- Ethel Constance, the eldest, and Nina Kennard, the youngest- were also illustrators. They studied art firstly at Hastings School of Art, then, following their parents' divorce in 1912 and the subsequent relocation of the girls and their father to Brixton, at Lambeth School of Art.
All three sisters illustrated postcards for the publisher Alfred Vivian Mansell & Co., with Nina (who also illustrated Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School series) and Ethel becoming quite prolific. Brisley died in 1978 at the age of 82.
Arthur Butcher 182 Wellfield Road. An Artist and Illustrator. Produced a popular series of cards entitled "Girls from the Allied Countries later used as a promotional calendar . Enlisted in the Artists Riles in WW1 and then lived at 16 Elmbourne Road. In 1920 commissioned to draw the front cover of the Illustrated London News and in the 1930s produced illustrations for books based on Disney cartoon films. Church Warden St Peter's Church (John W Brown)
Walter Crane Artist and book illustrator The Widow of Nain ("Weep Not"), in Christchurch Streatham is designed by Walter Crane and installed in 1891 as the first window in the north aisle. The church had pioneered the use of polychromy in the early 1840s, and had attracted a good deal of attention for that at the time. This is one of two wonderfully distinctive and expressive windows in the aisle designed by Crane, both in memory of the Reverend Woodstock Raven, the first vicar of the church, from 1841-1887. (Victorian Web)
Conrad Dressler, "Broadlands" Streatham High Road. Sculptor and potter born in Streatham. Studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art. He was later influenced by the Arts & Crafts Movement. He worked in partnership with Harold Rathbone between 1894 and 1897 at the Della Robbia Pottery, and then moved to Marlow Common in Buckinghamshire, where he established the Medmenham Pottery specialising in architectural tiles and large wall panels, created from small sections. Dressler was the inventor of a tunnel kiln known as the 'Dressler oven'.
Dennis William Dring 33 Kingcourt Road. Dring is reported as being born in Streatham (although the 1911 Census indicates he was born in Brixton but the family lived at 33 Kingscourt Rd in Streatham) He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1922 and 1925, where he won several prizes and scholarships. He taught drawing and painting at the Southampton School of Art until 1942. In the late 1920s Dring was commissoned by the architects Edwin Lutyens and Albert Edward Richardson to paint a number of murals.
At the start of the Second World War Dring completed several portrait commissions for the War Artists' Advisory Committee, WAAC. In early 1942 he resigned from Southampton School of Art to work on a full-time contract for the Committee, specialising in Admiralty portraits. His final war-time contract with WAAC saw Dring working on portraits for the Air Ministry throughout 1944 and 1945. Sixty-four of Drings war-time portraits, mostly pastels are in the collection of the Imperial War Museum, who also hold five oil paintings by him. There are a further forty of his wartime works at the National Maritime Museum, mostly pastel portraits.
William Dyce 111-119 and also 1 Streatham High Road. Painter and educationist He was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and played a part in their early popularity. In 1827 painted the Madonna and Child bequeathed to the Tate Gallery. This image was used twice for the Christmas Postage stamps. Other work in the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and Osborne House. He designed the Victorian florin
There is a street in Streatham named for him – William Dyce Mews in addition to the Dyce fountain on Streatham Green. Buried in the churchyard of St Leonards Church where he was church warden
Merlyn Evans 436 Streatham High Road. Painter and printmaker. From 1927 to 1931 he attended Glasgow School of Art, exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1930, and in 1931, when he won the £50 Haldane travelling scholarship and a scholarship to the Royal College of Art.
In 1934 moved to Streatham and taught art at Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell, from 1934 to 1936, and at Riemann's design school in Belgravia from 1936 to 1938. In 1937 he exhibited with the Artists' International Association, the London Group, and in 'Surrealist Poems and Objects' at the London Gallery.(Mel Gooding)
John Flaxman R.A. Sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism. Early in his career he worked as a modeller for Josiah Wedgwood's pottery. He spent several years in Rome, where he produced his first book illustrations. He was a prolific maker of funerary monuments.
He was commissioned to carve Sophia's monument which is on a wall in St Leonard's Church, Streatham. Sophia was the seventh child of Henry and Hester Thrale of "Streatham Park"
Fred Fowle a fairground artist at R J Larkin at Eardley Road Streatham died. He lived locally in Balham. Described as Britain's most revered fairground artist. The BFI Captured him at work decorating a ride in his studio in Streatham where he pays tribute to the cinema posters, adverts and graphic novels that inspired his designs. His signature vibrant, three-dimensional style has been widely celebrated and chimes with the current resurgence of traditional steam-powered fairground rides.
Vincent Charles Arthur Giardelli MBE - 71 Hopton Road. Welsh artist, born in Stockwell and brought up in Streatham. He was educated at Alleyn's school, Dulwich, and went up to Hertford College, Oxford, in 1930 to read French and Italian. He found time to attend classes at the Ruskin School of Art, and become college captain of soccer and president of an Oxford music club. After taking a diploma in education, he taught French and English at Harvey grammar school, in Folkestone. Source (The Guardian)
Jane Jackson, a Madame Tussaud sculptor had her studio in Telford Ave. She did a bust of Duncan Sandys for Madamme Tussauds in 1958 and also 80 figures for the museum including Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
Margaret Drury Kemp-Welch "Parkstone" Christchurch Road. A painter, engraver, etcher of landscape and portraits and a teacher. Daughter of Stanley Kemp-Welch (1843-1929) who was a Rice Miller and Starch Manufacturer , she grew up in Kensington and received her education at the Royal Academy of Arts. She was the cousin of the artists Edith and Lucy Kemp Welch. The British Museum holds three of her prints and the Bushey Museum holds many examples of her work.
Charles de Lacey 32 Westwell Road. One of the foremost British marine artists of his period. He was especially known for his warship imagery. Locally he painted Streatham Common, looking west towards Immanuel Church. Inscribed: Procession of Sunday Society on Streatham Common. July 6th 1924. Year of our Lord.
Henry Stormonth Leifchild 15 Kirkstall Road. Sculptor and he first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1844, sending The Mother of Moses Leaving him on the Banks of the Nile. At the Great Exhibition of 1851 he exhibited his statue, Rispah Watching over the Dead Bodies of her Sons, and that, like his later groups Bacchus Awakening Ariadne, The Torchbearers, Minerva Repressing the Wrath of Achilles, Lot's Wife, and Wrecked, besides various busts, attracted favourable attention. He was the successful competitor for the guards' memorial at Chelsea Hospital in London. Seven models in plaster of his most important works were presented by his widow and family to the Castle Museum in Nottingham, all but one of which were destroyed by a curator before 1929. He is today best-known for the Robertson mausoleum (c.1867) in Warriston cemetery, Edinburgh. A heroic seated figure of Erinna, dated 1860, is at the Royal Holloway University is his work. (L. H. Cust and Christopher Whitehead)
Eileen Edith Lewenstein (Mawson)- lived at 6 Glencairn Road A ceramic artist, writer and editor. Studied painting on a scholarship to the West of England School of Art, Beckenham School of Art. Eileen Lewenstein founded 'Ceramic Review' in 1970. Lewenstein’s work can be seen, and appreciated, in the V&A museum and other notable museums and galleries.
Louis John Alfred Loynes 7 Bournevale Road. A Heraldic Artist.
Charles Henry Mabey, 4 Stonehill Mansions. A Sculptor who lived at 4 Stonehill Mansions and is buried at West Norwood Cemetery. C.H. Mabey snr modelled the sphinxes for Cleopatra’s Needle and the bronze work at the base of the needle. In addition, the Temple Bar memorial has three panels designed and made by him.
Peter Greenhamborn 11 Conyers Road - Artist. Educated at Dulwich College, Magdalen College, Oxford and the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington. Keeper at the Royal Academy he ran the Royal Academy Schools. Married a fellow painter, Irene Mary (Jane) Dowling . Among the people he has painted are HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Professor Leonie Gombrich, Lady Bonham Carter, Dr F R Leavis and Lord Hailsham. His portraits of 'Jane' and 'Father D'Arcy' and 'Life Class at Byam Shaw School' were bought under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest for the Tate Gallery. He is the author of book on Velasquez.
Adelaide Eliza Scott Ironside, Park Hill. An Australian artist connected to William Leaf of Park Hill, Streatham. Three of her paintings were donated to Australian national collections, but in 1888 they were in "a shed". They were then in Sydney University and "The Marriage at Cana" is at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Her paintings The Marriage in Cana of Galilee, St Catherine, and The Pilgrim of Art were shown at the 1862 Great Exhibition in London. When she died William Leaf arranged for her body to be brought to London and for storage in the Catacombs at Norwood prior to shipping to Australia
Winifred Margaret Knights. Hitherfield and Madeira Roads. Painter, the daughter of Walter Henry Knights, secretary of the Schoonoord Sugar Plantation Company and Mabel Gertrude Knights. The 1901 census records her living at 51 Hitherfield Road and the 1911 census records the family including Winifred's two younger sisters Joyer and Eileen lived at 22 Madeira Road Attended, Streatham and Clapham High School, James Allen’s Girls’ School (JAGS) and the Slade School of Fine Art. 1913 she won a poster competition organised by Peek Frean’s Biscuits with an illustration to Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market (UCL Art Museum). Two years later she was awarded both the silver and gold medals of the Royal Drawing Society. In 1920 Knights became the first woman to win the coveted British School at Rome Scholarship in Decorative Painting. She married fellow Rome Scholar Sir Walter Thomas Monnington in April 1924
(Source Sacha Llewellyn- Oxford DNB)
Donald Fraser Gould McGill, flat 7 at 36 Christchurch Road and is buried at Streatham Park cemetery Graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with the genre of saucy seaside postcards that were sold mostly in small shops in British coastal towns. The cards feature an array of attractive young women, fat old ladies, drunken middle aged men, honeymoon couples, and vicars. He has been called 'the king of the saucy postcard', and his work is collected and appreciated for his artistic skill, its power of social observation and earthy sense of humour. Even at the height of his fame he only earned three guineas a design, but today his original artwork can fetch thousands of pounds.
Edmund John Niemann "The Glebe", Brixton Hill. Landscape artist.His father, a native of Minden in Westphalia, was a member of Lloyd's, and the young Niemann entered that establishment as a clerk at the age of thirteen. A number of his paintings sre held by the Woverhampton Art Gallery. He died suddenly on Brixton Hill of apoplexy near his home "The Glebe. Many of his works were exhibited at the opening of the Nottingham Museum and Art Galleries in 1878. The Victoria and Albert Museum has a landscape by him, Amongst the Rushes, and four drawings in watercolours. A View on the Thames Near Maidenhead is in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. He painted Streatham Common
Source extracts: R. E. Graves and Mark Pottle
Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA, Streatham Park. Painter, specialising in portraits. He was noted for his paintings of the “Streatham Worthies” - a collective description for the circle of literary and cultural figures around the wealthy brewer Henry Thrale and his wife Hester.
Axel Scheffler was born on 12 December 1957 in Hamburgh. A German illustrator and animator based in London and a former Streatham Hill resident He is best known for his cartoon -like pictures for children's books, in particular The Grufallo. in 2012 he designed the Christmas postage stamps for the Royal Mail. His official website which includes drawings of the view from his Streatham residence.
William Collingwood Smith. Watercolourist. He was born in Brixton Hill and was a noted watercolourist which included a painting of Streatham Common. In his obituary (Illustrated London News, 2 April 1887) he was said "to have continued the development of that style of correct landscape painting which gained much acceptance in English eyes before the more imaginative treatment came into favour. As faithful transcripts of nature, his pictures have considerable merit, and some of them are remarkable for their truthful representation of the aspects of the country at different seasons of the year. His views of British mountain and lake scenery are distinguished also by their fidelity to local conditions." (Betty Griffin FOWNC)
James Philip Sidney Streatfeild, Mount Ephraim Road-artist. Family lived at "Branscomb", Mount Ephraim Road. James and his 2 brothers attended Dulwich College. In 1895 he went to art college and subsequently became a full time artist, based at a studio off the King’s Road. He became a regular at the Royal Academy, having paintings exhibited on six occasions between 1901 and 1908. During this period he also became a regular in society circles, particularly through Lady Eva Astley Cooper, and the events and parties she hosted at her country house, Hambleton Hall.
In the early part of 1914 he encountered a young actor named Noel Coward to whom he became something of a mentor, most notably introducing the young Coward to Lady Astley Cooper and the Hambleton Hall scene, a relationship which was to remain a significant part of Coward’s life for many years to come.
Buried at Streatham Cemetery
(Dulwich College and IWM)
Graham Sutherland, born at 8 Pendle Road, Streatham and baptised at St Alban's Streatham Park
Eldest of the three children of George Humphrey Vivian Sutherland, barrister and civil servant at the Board of Education, and his wife, Elsie Foster.Technically gifted and endlessly imaginative, Graham Sutherland is one of the 20th century’s most influential and inventive voices, capturing the character of Britain before, during and after the Second World War.
(Sources Rosie Lesso and Roger Berthoud.
Joseph Holland Tringham. Artist and illustrator. Born in Hammersmith in 1861 he moved to Streatham, living at various addresses in the neighbourhood, including 15 Barrow Road, 22 Westwell Road and at 19 Greyhound Lane. He received royal patronage and exhibited at the Royal Academy.
A pub in Streatham High Road is named after him
John Doman Turner, 63 Donton Ave. He was a deaf painter and member of the Camden Town Group. Born in Brixton in London, Turner received artistic training by correspondence from Spencer Gore while working as a stockbroker's clerk. This correspondence still exists, and has been used by subsequent artists, for example Esther Freud in her novel The Sea House. Turner exhibited twelve works with the Camden Town Group in three exhibitions between 1911 and 1912 During his later life Turner went on to paint four unique scrolls including the Walberswick Scroll, a 123-foot 'Dioramic Pictorial Record of a Suffolk Village' which detailed every dwelling of the Suffolk village of Walberswick. This was followed by the Trinity Fair Scroll, a portrait of a travelling circus, which can be seen at the Swan Hotel, Southwold.
Harold Collier Watson "Laneside" 28 Leigham Ave and 19 Streatham Hill. Landscape and Portrait Artist. Born in Scarborough and briefly lived in Canada
He studied at the Scarborough School of Art, at Lambeth School of Art and at the Royal College of Art (R.C.A), where he won numerous gold, silver and bronze medals and was awarded a traveling scholarship to Italy. He exhibited at the Royal Academy (R.A.). Taught at Regent Street Polytechnic.(Evelyn Jane Brendan Williams)
David Wilson 22 Downton Ave. Irish illustrator and painter. Contributed to the Belfast weekly publication, The Magpie. Between 1900 and 1933 and 55 cartoons to Punch. He was the chief cartoonist for The Graphic from 1910 to 1916. He was also published in the London Opinion, The Sketch, The Star, Temple Magazine, Life, Tatler, The Passing Show, The World and Pan. He illustrated the cover of the first issue of Votes for Women in October 1907, a publication of the Women's Social and Political Union. Wilson was also a landscape and flower painter, and from 1920 his reputation for painting developed. In 1921, the Burlington Gallery, London exhibited his caricatures.
Peter de Wint. Painter, mostly in landscape painting in oils and watercolour. A number of his pictures are in Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum and The Collection, Lincoln. Painted Streatham Common. He died in London.
