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.
James Louis Garvin ('Men of the Day. No. 1296. "? - !"')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 13 September 1911
NPG D45627
Samuel Franklin Cody ('Men of the Day. No. 1303. "All British."')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 1 November 1911
NPG D45634
(Thomas Stange Heiss) Oscar Asche ('Men of the Day. No. 1307. "Kismet."')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 29 November 1911
NPG D45638
Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr ('Men of the Day. No. 1308. "Self-"')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 6 December 1911
NPG D45639
William McAuliffe ('Men of the Day. No. 1309. "Stonehenge, 1911."')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 13 December 1911
NPG D45640
Lucien Wolf ('Men of the Day. No. 1310. "Diplomaticus."')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 20 December 1911
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Philip Whitwell Wilson ('Men of the Day. No. 1311. "P. W. W."')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 27 December 1911
NPG D45642
(Thomas Stange Heiss) Oscar Asche
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 29 November 1911
NPG D9601
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 1 November 1911
NPG D9686
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 13 December 1911
NPG D9855
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 27 December 1911
NPG D9986
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 20 December 1911
NPG D9988
Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr ('Men of the Day. No. 1308. "Self-"')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 6 December 1911
NPG D18063
Robert Bilcliffe Loraine ('Men of the Day. No. 1313. "The Flying Stage."')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 10 January 1912
NPG D45644
Eugene Corri ('Men of the Day. No. 1308. "a typical Englishman."')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 14 February 1912
NPG D45649
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 13 March 1912
NPG D45653
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 14 February 1912
NPG D9693
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 10 January 1912
NPG D9841
Sir Charles Wright Macara, 1st Bt
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 13 March 1912
NPG D9844
Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield ('Men of the Day. No. 2321. "He never attacks morality."')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 30 April 1913
NPG D45711
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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