Arthur Trevor Haddon

Arthur Trevor Haddon
Illustration by Arthur Trevor Haddon, from Yule Logs
Born	22 August 1864 London, England
Died	13 December 1941 (aged 77) Cambridge, England
Nationality	English
Education	Slade School of Fine Art; Hubert von Herkomer (18880-90)
Known for	Painter, illustrator
Movement	Orientalist

Arthur Trevor Haddon (22 August 1864 – 13 December 1941), also known as Trevor Haddon, was a British painter and illustrator.

Life and career

Arthur Trevor Haddon was born on 22 August 1864 in London. He won a scholarship to the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art and enrolled in 1883.^[1] There, he studied under Alphonse Legros. He also studied with Hubert von Herkomer from 1888 to 1890.^[2]

Although he lived primarily in London and Cambridge, Haddon traveled to Rome, Madrid, Venice, California, South America, Hawaii, and Asia.^[3] He died in Cambridge on 13 December 1941, at age 77.^[4]

Work

Haddon was both a painter and illustrator.

Selected paintings

• 
  Palm Fringed Shore, c. 1826
• 
  Spanish Streetscape, date unknown
• 
  Pastel portrait of Herman Finck (1939)

Illustrations in publications

Haddon illustrated the following works:

• Browne, Edith A., Peeps at Many Lands: Spain, with twelve full-page illustrations in colour by Trevor Haddon and Edgar T. A. Wigram, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1910
• Calvert, Albert Frederick, Granada Present and Bygone, (illustrations by Trevor Haddon), J. M. Dent, London, 1908
• Calvert, Albert Frederick, Southern Spain: Painted By Trevor Haddon, A. & C. Black, Ltd., London, 1908
• Gould, Baring, A Book of the Rhine from Cleve to Mainz. With eight Illustrations in Colour by Trevor Haddon, London, Methuen 1906
• Nye, G.H.F, Our Island Home (8 illustrations by Trevor Haddon), Bemrose & Sons, Limited, London, c. 1898
• Okey, Thomas, The Old Venetian Palaces and Old Venetian Folk. With Fifty Coloured and Other Illustrations by Trevor Haddon, London. J. M. Dent & Co. 1907
• Thirlmere, Rowland, Letters from Catalonia and other parts of Spain (illustrations by Trevor Haddon), Hutchinson & Co., London, 1905

See also

• List of Orientalist artists
• Orientalism

References

1. Ambrosini, R. and Dury, R., European Stevenson, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, p. 8
2. Calton Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Archived 23 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
3. Vallejo Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
4. Calton Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Archived 23 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine