Landscape Watercolour – signed John Dinsdale (1906).

Description

John Dinsdale was an artist and illustrator who was most active in the 1880s.

He contributed illustrations to the Illustrated London News, the Graphic, Punch and other periodicals and was particularly known for his illustrations in the Girls Own Paper and for his leading contribution to the Victorian periodical ‘Fun’, a competitor to Punch. 

He published a series of books with his own illustrations, including ‘Sketches of Whitby’, ‘Sketches of London’, ‘Theatrical Sketches’, etc.

A Victorian artist whose work is now fairly obscure.

Some damage to frame – see photos.