Cicely Englefield
Cicely Englefield was a British artist known for writing and illustrating children's books.
Biography
Englefield was born in the Lee area of south London where her father was a solicitor and County Court Register. After attending Maidstone Grammar School and Blackheath High School, she studied at the St Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts. After producing illustrations for children's annuals she began to illustrate her own children's books which were often about animal characters and natural history subjects. Throughout her career, Englefield often used wood engraving techniques and also created illustrations in watercolour, lithography and pen and ink drawings. She died at Poole, Dorset.
George and Angela, 1932Katie the Caterpiller, 1933Billy Winks, 1934The Tale of a Guinea Pig, 1935A House for a Mouse, 1936Squishy Apples, 1937Bennie Black Lamb, 1938Connie the Cow, 1939Jeremy Jack, the Lazy Hare, 1940Bert the Sparrow, 1941Monty the Frog, 1941Feather the Foal, 1942The Tale of a Tadpole, 1945In Field and Hedgerow, 1948Scruffy the Little Black Hen, 1948Stories of an Old Grey Wall, 1958.