Frederick Pegram (19 December 1870

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- 23 August 1937), was a prolific English illustrator and cartoonist who produced work for ''

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''. He studied under Fred Brown and spent some time in Paris. He also painted, drew pencil portraits, did watercolours, used chalk and pastel, and produced etchings. He became one of the most consistent of magazine illustrators, maintaining a high standard and preferring a Georgian setting for his works. He succumbed to lung cancer on 23 August 1937. Fred Pegram21

The son of Alfred Pegram, a cabinet maker, Frederick, enrolled at the

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at age 15. Some of his fellow students were

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and

Maurice Greiffenhagen Maurice Greiffenhagen (15 December 1862 – 26 December 1931

. Pegram served as Special Constable at

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during

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. Pegram's draughtsmanship was widely acclaimed and he produced the artwork for

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advertisements,

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, Ronuk Wax Polish,

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, and some versions of the iconic Kodak Girl. Between 1889 and 1904 he exhibited regularly at the

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, and in 1925 was elected a member of the

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, where he was a frequent exhibitors. He also designed posters for the

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. In 1918 he moved into one of 15 artist's studios that were known as 'The Avenue' and located at 76

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. The sculptor and medallist Alfred Bertram Pegram (17 January 187314 January 1941) was one of Frederick's younger brothers. Frederick and Alfred were cousins to the four Brock brothers, all illustrators, who worked together in their studio in Cambridge. Frederick, Alfred, and the Brock brothers were all first cousins to the sculptor

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(27 July 186225 March 1937). __NOTOC__

Books illustrated

Poor Jack (1897), At the Rising of the Moon (1898), London's World Fair (1898), The Orange Girl (1899) and Martin Chuzzlewit (1900), A Lost Leader. Marriage à la Mode, The Missioner, Tea-Table Talk; Sybil, Or The Two Nations (1895).

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