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.
Sir John Lavery ('Men of the Day. No. 2322. "He paints various Royalties."')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 7 May 1913
NPG D45712
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson ('Men of the Day. No. 2326. "Mr. Forbes-Robertson.."')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 4 June 1913
NPG D45716
Eden Phillpotts ('Men of the Day. No. 2327. "The Prophet of Dartymoor."')
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 11 June 1913
NPG D45717
Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 1913
NPG D5113
Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 30 April 1913
NPG D9654
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 4 June 1913
NPG D9740
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 7 May 1913
NPG D9827
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 11 June 1913
NPG D9897
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
NPG D2651
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
NPG D2652
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
NPG D2653
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
NPG D2654
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
NPG D2655
David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
NPG D2656
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
NPG D2657
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
NPG D2658
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
NPG D2659
Edward Henry Carson, 1st Baron Carson
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
On display in Room 25 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG D2660
Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
NPG D2661
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
NPG D2662
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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