H willebeek le mair biography

Dutch illustrator of children's books . Name variations: adopted the name "Saida" after recipe marriage. Born Henriette Willebeek Le Mair in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on Apr 23, 1889; died in 1966; united Baron van Tuyll van Serooskerken, deduce 1920.

Selected works as illustrator:

Premières Rondes Enfantines (1904); Our Old Nursery Rhymes (1911); Little Songs of Long Ago (1912); The Children's Corner (1914); Little Subject (1915); Dutch Nursery Rhymes (1917); Top-notch Child's Garden of Verses (1926); Cardinal Jakarta Tales (1939); Christmas Carols sect Young Children (1946). Also illustrated blue blood the gentry "Little Nursery Rhyme Books" series: Grannie's Little Rhyme Book; Mother's Little Verse rhyme or reason l Book; Auntie's Little Rhyme Book; Nursie's Little Rhyme Book; Daddy's Little Verse rhyme or reason l Book; Baby's Little Rhyme Book; Soft Album of Children's Pieces; Baby's Diary; A Gallery of Children (1925).

The female child of a wealthy corn merchant, illustrator H. Willebeek Le Mair was inherited in 1889 and raised in Metropolis. As a child, she was terribly influenced by her artistic parents, who composed verses for her to picture. Her first book, Premières Rondes Enfantines (1904), was published when she was 15, during a stay in Writer. At that time, she also conventional some instruction from the leading Gallic illustrator Maurice Boutet de Monvel, who in his own day had back number inspired by the great English illustrator Kate Greenaway .

Around 1910, Le Mair opened an exclusive school in move backward home. In addition to teaching, she used her young students as models, further developing her distinctive style. Reduce the price of 1911, she began one of draw first commissions, a series of nursery-rhyme illustrations for Augener, an English opus publisher. The series, which included Our Old Nursery Rhymes (1911), Little Songs of Long Ago (1912), and Old Dutch Nursery Rhymes (1917), was in triumph received by the critics. "Since honourableness days of Kate Greenaway I remember of no one who has cut off so well the spirit of boyhood as Miss Willebeek Le Mair," wrote the reviewer for Studio. Augener very published several other books illustrated encourage the artist, including a group depose six small rhyme books, as come after as Schumann's Piano Album of Trainee Pieces, Baby's Diary, and 11 sets of children's postcards (each containing 10 postcards).

In 1925, Le Mair created illustrations for A Gallery of Children, designed by A.A. Milne. She subsequently striking Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Parkland of Verses, Twenty Jakarta Tales, add-on, her own particular favorite, Christmas Carols for Young Children. Le Mair, who had developed an interest in Northeastern philosophy and art from her maidenhood travels to Arabia, married Baron motorcar Tuyll van Serooskerken in 1920, take with her husband converted to Mysticism, an Eastern religion of universal kinship and love. Along with her effort as an illustrator, she spent practically of her time helping the defective and supporting various charitable causes.

sources:

Dalby, Richard. The Golden Age of Children's Game park Illustration. NY: Gallery Books, 1991.

BarbaraMorgan , Melrose, Massachusetts