Frank Reynolds, R.I.
Frank Reynolds (1876-1953) was a British artist. Son of an artist, he studied at Heatherley's School of Art. In 1906 he began contributing to Punch Magazine and was regularly published within its pages during World War I. He was well known for his many illustrations in several books by Charles Dickens, including David Copperfield (1911), The Pickwick Papers (1912) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1913). "It has been said of Tolstoy, anatomising the grim skeleton of human nature, that his writings are
...more like life than life itself. Of Frank Reynolds, with gently satirical pen and pencil depicting the superficial humours of modern life, it might be said that his drawings, too, are more humanly natural than real flesh and blood. It is the peculiar faculty of the true observer that his eye pierces straight to the heart of what he sees, and his mind, disregarding mere detail, thereby receives and retains a clear perception of the essential, which those of less clear and direct vision fail to grasp more than momentarily, though they hail it with instant recognition when in its naked simplicity it is set before them."
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