Harry Rountree (1878-1950) was a prolific illustrator working in
England around the turn of the 19/20th centuries. He came from New
Zealand in 1901 to London, when he was 23 years old.
Harry Rountree was determined to make his mark on the
then-flourishing magazine and book market. For two years he struggled,
studied and sold the occasional drawing. However, when the editor of
Little Folks magazine gave him a commission to illustrate a story with
an animal, he found his feet and suddenly he became quite successful. By
1903 he was illustrating books for the editor of Little Folks, writing
and illustrating his own books, and in demand by nearly every publisher
in London. He was one of the subjects in Percy V. Bradshaws’ “The Art of
the Illustrator” 20 part series, published in 1918, where six stages of
the creation of an illustration were published along with notes and
biography. Rountree was also noted for his illustrations of British Golf
Courses & golfing caricatures.
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