Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon

English Canadian artist and teacher, active in Ontario c. 1860

Date of Birth: 24-Jul-1826

Place of Birth: Littlehampton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 16-Feb-1874

Profession: writer, teacher, painter, children's writer

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon

  • Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon (24 July 1826 – 6 February 1874) was a teacher and artist known for her talents during the 1860s in Ontario, Canada.
  • In 1966, her most comprehensive work, An Illustrated Comic Alphabet, was published by librarians and artists who admired her work.
  • Five years later, the Canadian Library Association inaugurated an annual award named for her, Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award.
  • It recognizes the year's best illustration by a Canadian illustrator of a children's book published in Canada.Born at Littlehampton, Sussex, England, she was the oldest daughter of Amelia Dendy and Edward Howard Howard-Gibbon, himself the illegitimate son of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk.
  • She was educated in private schools during the employment of her father at the College of Arms.
  • From her earliest years, Howard-Gibbon enjoyed drawing freehanded sketches, some of which survive today.
  • She is believed to have studied French, German, and Art while in Paris, France, and Stuttgart, Germany.
  • She was the first of the Howard-Gibbon siblings to emigrate to Ontario, where she began teaching in St.
  • Thomas.
  • She later moved to Sarnia and continued to teach children there for many years.
  • Howard-Gibbon moved back to England in 1873, to claim an inheritance from her uncle Matthew Charles Howard-Gibbon, and became ill.
  • She died in Lambeth and was buried with her father at Saint Nicholas Churchyard in Arundel. During Howard-Gibbon's time in Ontario, she created watercolor portraits and sketches of several friends and family members.
  • In 1859 she sketched a children's alphabet book which she later gave to a friend, Martha Poussette.
  • Many years later Poussette's family donated the book to the Toronto Children's Library.
  • (The original is in the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, catalogued as a book, "25 leaves", under 24 "ART" call numbers whose last words are letters of the alphabet, A to Z except I and U.) It was finally published in 1966 as An Illustrated Comic Alphabet by Oxford University Press in Toronto (catalogued as a 31-page book) and Henry Z.
  • Walck in New York.
  • It is the oldest known children's picture book by a Canadian artist.

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