{"id":97795,"date":"2021-04-01T14:08:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T13:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.demonewlogic.it\/artisti\/arthur-augustus-dixon-1872-1959\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:59:21","slug":"arthur-augustus-dixon","status":"publish","type":"artisti","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/artisti\/arthur-augustus-dixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Augustus Dixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;403510&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arthur Augustus Dixon<\/strong> was born in St. Pancras in 1872.<\/p>\n<p>In 1887, upon the death of his father, he moved to Islington with his mother Rosa and his two brothers Frederick and Herbert.<\/p>\n<p>From a young age, Arthur Dixon was recognized for having a rare talent, which led him to exhibit his works in his native London.<\/p>\n<p>When he was just 24 years old, his paintings were presented at the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Society of British Artists.<\/p>\n<p>Before Arthur Dixon became the most famous illustrator of his time, in his paintings, he was a forerunner of Pre-Raphaelite painting.<\/p>\n<p>In 1899 he married <strong>Cecil Elsie Sowerby<\/strong>, an artist and sculptor with whom he <strong>had two children Elsie and Arthur Cecil<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur started working as an illustrator of classic novels and storybooks for Ernest Nister of London, Clear-Type Press of Collins of Glasgow, and Blackie &amp; Sons.<\/p>\n<p>He died in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, in 1959.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_custom_heading uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;765288&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_custom_heading][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Augustus Dixon was born in St. Pancras in 1872.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":98079,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[6512],"class_list":["post-97795","artisti","type-artisti","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tags-d"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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