Cecil Stuart Hazell Tresilian was a British artist and illustrator, best known for his illustrations of children's books, including Rudyard Kipling's Animal Stories and All the Mowgli Stories, and Enid Blyton's Adventure Series.
11 Facts About Stuart Tresilian
1.
2.
Stuart Tresilian was born in Barton Regis, Gloucestershire, on 12 July 1891, and grew up in Islington, London, where his father worked as a colliery clerk.
3.
Stuart Tresilian became a professional vocalist, and later served in the Army Audit Department.
4.
Stuart Tresilian studied art at Regent Street Polytechnic, where he became a pupil teacher, and gained a scholarship to the Royal College of Art before the First World War.
5.
Stuart Tresilian was wounded and captured in 1918, and held at Rastatt.
6.
Stuart Tresilian was repatriated at the end of 1918, and the following year married Sybil Alfreda Mayer in Kilburn, London.
7.
Stuart Tresilian returned to Regent Street Polytechnic as a teacher, his students including Charles Keeping.
Related searches
Charles Keeping 8.
Stuart Tresilian was a prolific illustrator from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, working on magazines like The Wide World Magazine, Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Zoo, The Passing Show, The Wide World Magazine and Britannia and Eve, as well as numerous children's books for Macmillan, Cambridge University Press, Jonathan Cape, The Bodley Head and others.
9.
Stuart Tresilian was a brother of the Art Workers Guild, being elected Master in 1960, and a member of the Society of Graphic Art, serving as its president from 1962 to 1965.
10.
Stuart Tresilian exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, and had his first solo show, including his illustrations for Kipling's Mowgli Stories, drawings done in London Zoo, and photographs, in 1970 at Upper Grosvenor Galleries.
11.
Stuart Tresilian retired to Winslow, Buckinghamshire, where he died in the summer of 1974.