John Leech
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John Leech (29 August 1817 – 29 October 1864) was a British caricaturist and illustrator.
He is best known for his work for Punch, a humorous magazine for a broad middle-class audience, combining verbal and graphic political satire with light social comedy.
Leech catered to contemporary prejudices, such as anti-Americanism and antisemitism and supported acceptable social reforms.
Leech's critical yet humorous cartoons on the Crimean War help shape public attitudes toward heroism, warfare, and Britons' role in the world.Leech also enjoys fame as the first illustrator of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.
He was furthermore a pioneer in comics, creating the recurring character Mr. Briggs and some sequential illustrated gags.
Early life
John Leech was born in London. His father, a native of Ireland, was the landlord of the London Coffee House on Ludgate Hill, "a man", on the testimony of those who knew him, "of fine culture, a profound Shakespearian, and a thorough gentleman." His mother was descended from the family of Richard Bentley. Like his father. Leech was skillful at drawing with a pencil, which he began doing at a very early age. When he was only three, he was discovered by John Flaxman, who was visiting, seated on his mother's knee, drawing with much gravity. The sculptor admired his sketch, adding, "Do not let him be cramped with lessons in drawing; let his genius follow its own bent; he will astonish the world"—advice which was followed. A mail-coach, done when he was six years old, is already full of surprising vigour and variety in its galloping horses. Leech was educated at Charterhouse School, where William Makepeace Thackeray, his lifelong friend, was a fellow pupil, and at sixteen he began to study for the medical profession at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won praise for the accuracy and beauty of his anatomical drawings. He was then placed under a Mr Whittle, an eccentric practitioner, the original of "Rawkins" in Albert Smith's Adventures of Mr Ledbury, and afterwards under Dr John Cockle; but gradually he drifted into the artistic profession. His nickname also being "Blicky" stuck with him during his life, along with being famous.
Artistic career
His first designs were published in an eighteen quarto of four pages titled Etchings and Sketchings by A.. Pen, Esq., is a detective who looks at people from the London streets. Then drew some political lithographs, did rough sketches for Bell's Life, and later submitted his renderings to illustrate the Pickwick Papers.
Leech began contributing to the magazines in 1840 with a series of etchings in Bentley's Miscellany, where George Cruikshank had published his plates to Jack Sheppard and Oliver Twist, depicting Guy Fawkes in a feebler style.
Leech, the elder master of Ingoldsby Legends and Stanley Thorn, created many etchings until 1847. These weren't his best work; their execution is inconsistent, and we never feel that they represent the artist's individuality, for example, the Richard Savage plates, which are notably reminiscent of Cruikshank and Hablot Browne's The Dance at Stamford Hall of Hablot Browne.
In 1845, Leech illustrated St Giles and St James in Douglas William Jerrold's latest Shilling Magazine, with plates more vibrant and successful than those in Bentley, but it is also in those less etched and meant to be printed with colour, where the artist's best powers appear with the needle and acid.
Four charming plates to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843), the widely popular etchings in the Comic History of England (1847–1848), as well as the more elegant illustrations to the Comic History of Rome (1852) show some amazingly beautiful details, including the fair faces emerging from the flooded water in Cloelia and her Companions Escaping from the Etruscan Camp.
Among his other engravings are those in Young Master Troublesome, Master Jacky's Holidays, and Hints on Life, or How to Rise in Society (1845)—a series of minute figures connected gracefully together by coils of smoke, illustrating the highest degree and condition of men, including the doctor by his patient's bedside—roughly depicting the various ranks and conditions of men, with some of whom—the doctor by his patient's bedside—almost equalling in etching in etching
Several etchings of sporting scenes from the 1850s were included in Robert Smith Surtees' Handley Cross books.
