| Walter
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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Illustrator |
| Date of birth - 15 Aug 1845
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Date of death - 1915 |
| Place of birth
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Walter Crane was primarily a designer and book illustrator, specialising in children's books. He was born in Liverpool on 15 August 1845, moving to London with his family in 1857.
Soon after his father's death Walter Crane obtained an apprenticeship at William Linton's engraving shop. William Linton had been a member of the Chartist movement in the 1840s and his stories of the struggle for parliamentary reform, had an important influence on Crane's early political development.
Linton was impressed by the quality of Crane's work and helped to find him commissions. This included providing the illustrations for J. R. Wise's book on the New Forest.
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Crane went to live with Wise for six weeks while he was working on the pictures. J. R. Wise had radical political and religious opinions and introduced Crane to the work of John Stuart Mill, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Ruskin.
Walter Crane's reputation as an artist continued to grow and was recognised as a talented book illustrator. In the 1870s Crane mainly worked on children's books but he also had paintings accepted by the Royal Academy and had several exhibitions in London Art Galleries.
In December 1914 Crane's wife Mary was killed by a train. The couple had been married for forty-four years and Crane was devastated by her death. Walter Crane died three months later in Horsham Hospital, on 14th March, 1915.
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