Knight John Tenniel - Who is the famous English artist honored by Google?

Knight John Tenniel has just been honored by Google on its homepage today February 28, 2020. So who are you, why does Google Doodle honor you?

Today, Google Doodle celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Knight John Tenniel. Perhaps many people do not know him, but are aware of the illustrations in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . It is one of his most famous works.

Knight John Tenniel (February 28, 1820 - February 25, 1914) is an English illustrator and satirist, especially known for his work in Punch and illustration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( 1865) - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - Wonderland in the mirror (1872).

John Tenniel is famous for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

John Tenniel was born in Bayswater, West London, the son of John Baptist Tenniel (a sword and dance master of the Huguenot lineage) and Eliza Maria Tenniel.

John Tenniel's family has five siblings. He was a quiet and introverted person, both as a boy and an adult.

John Tenniel attended the Royal Academy schools and in 1836 he sent his first painting to an exhibition by the British Artists' Association.

In 1845, Knight John Tenniel contributed a 12m cartoon to the Westminster Palace's mural design competition and received £ 100 and a commission for a fresco in the Chamber Room (or Hall). Poet) in the British Parliament.

In 1850, he was invited to succeed Richard Doyle as a joint comic artist with John Leech for Punch, a periodical cartoon magazine that Tenniel worked for most of his life. Gradually, he took over weekly drawings of politics.

Google Doodle honors Knight John Tenniel.

In his paintings on Punch, Knight John Tenniel shows the new dignity of political cartoons. His most famous cartoon work is probably "Dropping the Pilot" (1890), with the theme of resigning from Bismarck.

John Tenniel was knighted in 1893 and retired in 1901. He illustrated many books; His paintings for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are sophisticated, intelligent and extremely consistent with Lewis Carroll's style. These illustrations earned him an international reputation.