Leonard Raven-Hill

Leonard Raven-Hill (10 March 1867 – 31 March 1942) was an English artist, illustrator and cartoonist.

Life He was born in Bath and educated at Bristol Grammar School and the Devon County School. He studied art at the Lambeth School of Art and then in Paris under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Aimé Morot. He began to exhibit at the Salon in 1887 but moved back to London when he was appointed as the art editor of Pick-Me-Up.

Unlike most of the cartoonists at Punch, he was fairly sympathetic to liberal causes such as women's suffrage, Old Age Pensions Act 1908 and National Insurance Act 1911.

In his later years his eyesight began to fail. Raven-Hill died on 31 March 1942 at Ryde on the Isle of Wight,

His obituary in the New York Times describes him as the "last great Victorian artist", and states he was known for "his sense of character and humor and sound draftsmanship".

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