William Hatherell, (1855-1928)
William Hatherell was born at Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol on 18 October 1855, and was educated at private schools. He worked in the City before studying art, from 1877, at the Royal Academy Schools and, under Fred Brown, at Westminster School of Art. Beginning his career as a painter, he showed work at the Royal Academy from 1879, and became a member of several exhibiting societies: the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours (1888), the Royal Institute of Painters in Oils (1898), the Royal West of England Academy (1903) and the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists.
From the late 1880s, Hatherell increasingly applied his skills as a painter to his commissions as an illustrator, the new photographic methods of reproduction enabling him to work in oil on board as well as watercolour and pen and ink. He gained a reputation for refusing to produce hasty results, and became particularly expert in representing historical and literary subjects. Living in London, he joined the staff of the Graphic in 1892, contributed to other periodicals, and illustrated books.
But he became equally popular in the United States, where his work appeared most notably in Harper's New Monthly Magazine and an edition of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper (1909). His illustrative achievements led to his election as an honorary member of the Langham Sketching Club and a corresponding member of the American Society of Illustrators. He died in London on 7 December 1928.
His work is represented in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
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