Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
(1868-1938), PainterArtist of 99 portraits
Alick Ritchie was born in Dundee, Scotland. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Antwerp before settling in London as a commercial artist. He produced many cartoons for Vanity Fair, the Sketch, the Bystander and many other magazines and journals. Ritchie's cartoons and caricatures included portraits of celebrities in a style satirising the Cubist and Futurist schools of art that were predominant at the time. In 1912, he published a book called Y? or Zoo-all-awry, consisting of drawings and rhymes of composite animals, such as the Octopussy Cat and the Porcupython. Ritchie became well known for his theatrical posters, and between the wars he also produced posters for the London Underground.
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 6 September 1911
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Sir (Horatio) Gilbert George Parker, 1st Bt
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
watercolour, 1932
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, early 20th century
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, early 20th century
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 26 April 1905
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 21 June 1905
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 14 June 1905
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 3 May 1905
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 3 May 1905
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 26 April 1905
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 26 April 1905
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, 1907 or after
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Charles Stanhope, 8th Earl of Harrington
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, 1908-1911
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, 1908-1911
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 14 November 1908
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, 1908-1911
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Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, 1908-1911
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, 1908-1911
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by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, 1909 or before
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George Bernard Shaw ('Men of the Day. No. 1292. "G. B. S."')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 16 August 1911
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GRAHAM BURGESS
03 October 2020, 20:17
He completed a set of 50 cigarette cards, for J.PLAYERS, called " straight line caricatures", dated 1926. Dipicting celebrities of the day with a short summary of each character verso. He used the name Aulk P.F. Ritchie