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Message:: [QUOTE="Debora, post: 4250993, member: 1476"]Just doesn't seem to be much more known about him than this.  Of course, he was a commercial illustrator not a fine artist. Debora WOOLLEY Harry 1881-1959Artist and illustrator born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire and moved to Bristol in c.1911. He was active as a freelance artist from c.1910 onwards. Biography of Harry Woolley Probably the most prolific freelance artist to be involved in the production of cigarette cards was a gentleman enigmatically referred to in the records of printing firm Mardon, Son & Hall as “H. Woolley” (Harry Woolley, born in Hurst, Lancashire, 1880).  He was responsible for preparing the artwork for some or all of the illustrations appearing on at least 25 different sets of cigarette cards and in addition prepared dozens of sketches for adverts, show cards and the like. The only reference found is in Johnson & Gretzner’s Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940. This briefly states that he exhibited in 1912-13 at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Miniature Painters. A reference to a Harry Woolley is made in A Checklist of Painters 1200-1994 (2nd Edition) with H. Woolley and Harry being one and the same person. The cigarette card artwork that Woolley produced covered a wide range of subjects, which confirms that his skills were wide-rangingMr. Woolley was married twice. His second marriage was to Sheelah A. McCarthy in 1954, by which time he was living in Sussex. He died near Salisbury, Wiltshire, in 1959, aged 78.British Library records and the Abebooks website reveal a small number of publications which Woolley illustrated as follows: Debora[/QUOTE]

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