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Fred Pegram, 1870-1937

Main details

Main details for this item.
Reference number
1996/7864
Name
Frederick Pegram RA
Preferred name
Fred Pegram
Born
1870
Collection
Object type
  • Person
Completeness
36%
  • Biography

    AttributeValue
    Biography
    Frederick Pegram was born in London, where he worked as a painter, etcher and black and white illustrator. He contributed to Pearson's Magazine, Illustrated London News, Girls Own Annual, the Daily Chronicle, Punch and Cassell's Family Magazine amongst others.

    He also illustrated many of Macmillan's Illustrated Standard Novels including Martin Chuzzlewitt (1900) and Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil (1895).

    In the 1890s he was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club and was elected to the Royal Academy in 1925.
    Employment
    Designed posters for the Underground Group, 1923
    Role
    Artist,