Robert Flavell Micklewright

Robert Flavell Micklewright (1923–2013) was a British artist, illustrator and designer. He worked as a freelancer and designed dust jackets for books by C. P. Snow and V. S. Naipaul, and posters for London Transport. According to The Guardian, his work was "always of a high standard".

Micklewright was born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, the son of an illustrator, G. P. Micklewright, and Olive, née Flavell. He trained at the Croydon School of Art in the late 1930s. and Marble Hill House in 1977. His 1970 London Transport poster for Ham House is in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Micklewright designed book dust jackets for various authors, including C. P. Snow, David Caute, Paul Hyde Bonner, Hubert Bagster, Malcolm Saville, and V. S. Naipaul. and for his second, The Suffrage of Elvira , in 1958, both for André Deutsch.

Micklewright married while a student at the Slade and lived in the hamlet of Mogador, Surrey. He died in 2013.

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