| Rowland
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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Illustrator |
| Date of birth - 22 Oct 1906
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Date of death - 1990 |
| Place of birth
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Rowland Emett was born in London on October 22 1906. His grandfather was Court Engraver to Queen Victoria, and one of the young Rowland?s early ambitions was to be an artist, concentrating on landscape painting.
Following a period at art college, his study of a Cornish harbour was hung at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1931. During the Thirties he was employed as a draughtsman in the studio of process engravers at Birmingham.
The course of his career was dramatically changed when he submitted some of his experimental cartoons to ?Punch? in 1939. The leading humorous art journal in the world was being firmly steered into the modern age by the brilliant cartoonist Kenneth Bird (?Fougasse?), who took over as Art Editor in 1937.
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| He retained only a few of the veteran artists like Sir Bernard Partridge, while actively encouraging new young talent like David Langdon, L.G. Illingworth, and ?Paul Crum? (Roger Pettiward). Under Bird?s tenure, the number of ?Punch? artists steadily grew, with an increase in the amount of space devoted to drawings and cartoons.
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