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Maurice William Greiffenhagen

Maurice William Greiffenhagen (1862 - 1931) was active/lived in New York / United Kingdom, Scotland.  Maurice Greiffenhagen is known for Book illustration, poster design, idyllic landscape painting, teaching.

Maurice Greiffenhagen RA (London 15 December 1862[1] – 26 December 1931 was a British painter and Royal Academician. He illustrated books and designed posters as well as painting idyllic landscapes.

Exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1884, he was made an Associate Member in 1916 and a Royal Academician in 1922. From 1906 until 1926, he taught at the Glasgow School of Art. Greiffenhagen exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art in 1921.

His friendship with H Rider Haggard led to him illustrating the author's popular adventure books, starting with an edition of She: A History of Adventure in 1889 - though Greiffenhagen apparently "disliked doing black-and-white work". He illustrated the serialization of Ayesha The Return of She (1904-5) and that of The Holy Flower (1913-14) in the Windsor Magazine.

He also illustrated a number of Edgar Wallace's Sanders of the River books for the Windsor Magazine - The Ke   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3086 characters.]  Artist bio

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