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Frank Patterson (illustrator)
English illustrator
Frank Patterson (12 October 1871 – 17 July 1952) was an Englishillustrator best remembered for his pen and ink drawings of cycling in the first half of the 20th century.[1][2]
Personal life
Frank Patterson was born in Portsmouth into a family of seafarers.[3] After completing his studies at Portsmouth School of Art he walked to London seeking fame and fortune.
Producing pen and ink illustrations for books and magazines was the only way he could make a living.
Frank patterson biography
Most of his drawing was done with a Gillott 303 pen with a goose quill - "slapping in the pork", to use his own expression.
Early in 1898 Frank and his wife Emily leased a derelict Elizabethan property near Billingshurst in West Sussex for an annual rent of nine-pence (3½p); it remained their home for the next 54 years.
The house had no name so they called it Pear Tree Farm, a reference to the only recognisable tree.[3]
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