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Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie

(1868-1938), Painter

Artist 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.

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James Louis Garvin, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG 5395

James Louis Garvin

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 6 September 1911
NPG 5395

Frank Hedges Butler, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D18067

Frank Hedges Butler

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, early 20th century
NPG D18067

Two unknown men, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D18068

Two unknown men

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, early 20th century
NPG D18068

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D1255

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 26 April 1905
NPG D1255

William Booth, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D9642

William Booth

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 21 June 1905
NPG D9642

Sir John Martin-Harvey, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D9851

Sir John Martin-Harvey

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 14 June 1905
NPG D9851

Samuel Forde Ridley, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D9921

Samuel Forde Ridley

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 3 May 1905
NPG D9921

Samuel Forde Ridley, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D9922

Samuel Forde Ridley

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 3 May 1905
NPG D9922

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D18065

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 26 April 1905
NPG D18065

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D18066

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 26 April 1905
NPG D18066

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D18064

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
chromolithograph, 1907 or after
NPG D18064

Charles Stanhope, 8th Earl of Harrington, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D9789

Charles Stanhope, 8th Earl of Harrington

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, 1908-1911
NPG D9789

Frederick Harrison, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D9791

Frederick Harrison

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, 1908-1911
NPG D9791

Charles Yale Knight, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D9816

Charles Yale Knight

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, published 14 November 1908
NPG D9816

Sir John Knill, 2nd Bt, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D9817

Sir John Knill, 2nd Bt

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, 1908-1911
NPG D9817

Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D9878

Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, 1908-1911
NPG D9878

Frank Wootton, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D9991

Frank Wootton

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, 1908-1911
NPG D9991

Sir Gerald Du Maurier, by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie - NPG D9723

Sir Gerald Du Maurier

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
lithograph, 1909 or before
NPG D9723

George Bernard Shaw ('Men of the Day. No. 1292.

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
NPG D45623

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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