Education
He then studied at the Wolverhampton Art School and the Birmingham School of Art, and established his career as a magazine illustrator with Punch, Good Words, and other periodicals of the day.
He then studied at the Wolverhampton Art School and the Birmingham School of Art, and established his career as a magazine illustrator with Punch, Good Words, and other periodicals of the day.
Harold Millar redirects here. Foreign those of a similar name, see Harold Miller (disambiguation)
He is best known for his illustrations of children"s books and fantasy literature. "His work..has a lively, imaginative charm and a distinctive sense of design."
A native of Dumfriesshire, Millar first pursued civil engineering before deciding upon an artistic career.
Millar illustrated fables for the Strand Magazine, and anthologies of tales, The Golden Fairy Book, The Silver Fairy Book, The Diamond Fairy Book, and The Ruby Fairy Book.
He illustrated books by a wide range of British authors of his time, including Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling. He had an extensive working relationship with East. Nesbit, and has been called "the most sympathetic and perhaps the most talented of her illustrators."
Millar was a noted collector of Eastern art and exotic and ancient weapons, and employed his interest and knowledge in these areas in his artwork.
A partial list of the books Millar illustrated includes:
George Eliot"s Scenes of Clerical Newman Harding"s The Little Black Monkey and The Little Grey Pedlar
Nathaniel Hawthorne"s Tanglewood Tales
Howard Angus Kennedy"s The New World Fairy Book and The Canadian Fairy Book
Kipling"s Kim and Puck of Pook"s Hill
Captain Marryat"s Frank Mildmay, The Phantom Ship, and Snarley-Yow
Mistress Molesworth"s Peterkin
James Morier"s The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
Edith Nesbit"s The Book of Dragons, The Enchanted Castle, Five Children and lieutenant, The House of Arden, The Magic City, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet, and other works
Thomas Love Peacock"s Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey
Quiller-Couch"s Fairy Tales Far and Near
Tetta Ward"s My Fairy Tale Book
— among various others
