OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18598, 8 January 1935, Page 8

OBITUARY

Alii. CECIL ALDIN

(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Jan. 7, noon) LONDON, Jan. 6. The death is announced of Air. Cecil Aldin, the artist.

Air. Cecil Aldin’s charming clog studies, wherein he captured the spirit of mischief and playfulness in the canine companions lie loved so well, have made his name famous, and dog lovers throughout the world will regret his death. IJis art was expressed not, only in dog studies, for since his first drawing' was (published mi (the Graphic in 1891 lie lias painted a series of sporting pictures and studies ol many other subjects, two of his pictures having been purchased by the National War Museum in 1918. His most notable works wore the illustration of Kipling's "Jungle Tales" for the Pall Mall Budget in 1894-95, tho Fallowticld Hunt series in 1899-1900, A, Dog Day, 1902, 12 Hunting Countries in 1912-15, the illustration of the

“Pickwick Papers’’ in 1910, and a. collection of pictures of the old inns ol England in 1919-20. 11 is publications include “The Romance of ihe Road.

“Ihitcatchcr to Scarlet. ’ “Dogs of Character,” and “An Artist’s Alodels." “Cecil Aldin’s Dogsjj’ arc a byword amongst dog-lovers, Sand in bis death some of England's best-known perioeficals have lost an artist whose studies must have assisted materially to build up their circulation. Mr. Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin. in give him his full name, was horn in Slough in 1870, and was educated_ at. Mast-bourne College, later studying anatomy at South Kensington, and animal painting under Frank A. Calderon. He was at one time Af.F.H. of the South Berks foxhounds,