Joseph Simpson (1879-1939)
Joseph Simpson was born and educated in Carlisle. As a result of encouragement from J J Hodgson, he studied at the Glasgow School of Art and, during his time there, became a friend of D Y Cameron. He then worked in Carlisle as designer to a printer, and in Edinburgh, making his name with bookplates in a style echoing that of James Pryde. He moved to Chelsea, where he and his friend Frank Brangwyn had adjacent studios and, from then on, shared his time between London and Kircudbright. He taught at the London School of Art, and exhibited at the RBA (Member 1909), the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colour. An adaptable and varied illustrator, he produced caricatures for Haldane MacFall’s Ibsen (1907), full-colour plates for A Gallery of Heroes and Heroines (1915) and sketches in pencil, chalk and watercolour for the half-tones of Edinburgh Today (1915). His etchings include fine portraits of Frank Brangwyn and James Pryde, and mundane sporting scenes giving him the title of ‘the English Zorn’. During the First World War, he served as Official War Artist to the RAF in France. He died on 30 January 1939.
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