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Faith Heather Jaques (1923-1987) was a British illustrator of the late twentieth century notable for her work as a children's book author, illustrator, artist and advocate for artists' rights over their work. Her work includes illustrations for books by Roald Dahl, Arthur Ransome and Allan Ahlberg, illustrations for magazines, and designs for three sets of British postage stamps.

Life
Faith Jaques was born in Leicester on 13 December 1923, the daughter of a businessman.

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https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195146561.001.0001/acref-9780195146561-e-1647

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Jaques, Faith H Mothers Maiden name Playford  born Leicester Register entry 7a 438

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As a child, Jaques was a prodigious reader and artist. She attended Wyggeston Grammar School which she left aged 15 to attend Leicester College of Art in 1941-42 where she studied anatomy, perspective and the histories of architecture, furniture and costume. She illustrated and wrote books, as well as designing stamps. She was a friend of British stamp designer Michael Goaman.

She died on 12 July 1997 aged 74.

Career
Jaques joined the Women's Royal Naval Service in order to leave home and was posted to Oxford. Her duties included control of a filing department containing over a million photographs, holiday snaps included, of Germany and Occupied Europe, with particular attention given to pictures of coastlines and village approaches.While in the WRNS, she managed to take some lessons at Oxford School of Art under William Roberts and Bernard Meninsky, and it was then that she decided to become an illustrator. From early on, her favourite illustrators had been Rex Whistler and Eric Fraser.

After she was demobbed in December 1945, Jaques went to the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, on an ex-service grant ‘so low she was forced to lodge in a Salvation Army Hostel for her first six months’ (Nicholas Tucker, ‘Obituary’, Independent, 7 August 1997).

Her teachers included John Farleigh, Laurence Scarfe and John Minton. From the late 1940s, she lectured at Guildford School of Art (1948-53) and Hornsey College of Art (1960-68) on a part-time basis, while contributing to many magazines and producing other graphic work. For a period of twenty-five years, until 1973, contributing over 500 drawings for the Radio Times.

Comparatively late in her career, she began illustrating in colour including texts that she authored herself. Tilly's House (1979) - the story of a Dutch doll - was her first picture book as author and illustrator.

Jaques bought a house in Uxbridge Street, Notting Hill in 1964, and four years later gave up teaching. Though she had illustrated books from 1950, she concentrated on the art from the mid 1960s, working mainly in black and white, and acknowleding Edward Ardizzone as a significant influence, while demonstrating a closer visual alliance to Lynton Lamb.

Early successes included The Hugh Evelyn History of Costume (1966-70, 4 volumes), the first edition of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1967) and Nina Bawden’s Carrie’s War (1971). In the late 1970s, she illustrated all of Leon Garfield’s ‘London Apprentice’ series (1976-78, 10 volumes), before beginning to write her own children’s books, the first being Tilly’s House (1979).

In 1979, Heinemann commissioned Faith Jaques to re-illustrate the first four of Alison Uttley’s ‘Grey Rabbit’ tales, as the plates of the original illustrations by Margaret Tempest (1892-1982) had become too worn to be reprinted. The results were well received, as instanced by one review of Tales of Little Grey Rabbit (1980):

''‘Faith Jaques has added in her way to the credibility of tales in which a rabbit makes Primrose Wine, a hare plays Noughts and Crosses with a fox and old Hedgehog delivers milk to assorted customers. These firm, compact drawings ... bear witness to an artistic skill and tact’ (Margery Fisher, Growing Point, 1979, page 3693)''

In 1982, Uttley’s tales also provided the basis for the first of her series of cut-out picture books, Little Grey Rabbit’s House, while Tales of Little Brown Mouse appeared in 1984. She was invited to become an honorary member of the Association of Illustrators at this time.

Jaques continued to write and illustrate following her move to Hill House, Sion Road, Bath, in 1987. She died a decade later on 12 July 1997.

Her archive and working library, including original artwork, are held in the collections of Seven Stories, the centre for children’s books, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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She was on the staff of the graphic design department at Hornsey School of Art (when??)

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In 1968 she left teaching for full-time book illustration. (from obit or The Telling Line?)

Was this before the famous occupation by students in May/July 1968 ? https://21centurymanifesto.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/what-happened-at-hornsey-on-28-may-1968/

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In the following 20 years, she advocated for the rights of freelance artists. "No other individual can have achieved more on behalf of the professional community in matters of such as establishing the artist's ownership of original drawings, the right to sell them after an agreed period, and the right to a continuing interest in the ongoing commercial success of an edition to which they had made a substantial contribution." Douglas Martin The Telling Line (quoted in the obituary)

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Is available to read in National Library

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Postage Stamp design

As well as book illustrations, Jacques designed postage stamps for the Royal Mail.

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Times Digital Archive

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re Postage Stamp design

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Times Digital Archive

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Times Digital Archiv

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re Margaret Stavridi (longstanding friend)

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Granny age/illustration wrong

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Link to an article in The Times dated Saturday,  Dec. 6, 2003 "From pop-ups to Pullman: our wishlist to Santa" and the reference is to Arthur Ransome's "Old Peter's Russian Tales although the book title isn't named, reprinted by Jane Nissen and Jaques is described as one of the great illustrators of the 1970s.

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Times Digital Archive

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Michael Goaman obit- friend, stamp designer

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Images of FJ's Christmas Stamps

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Looking back on 1967 review of C&tCF

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https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002501/19720121/391/0032 -

Met Roald Dahl at book signing

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"Henry" by Elizabeth Yandell - illustated by JF

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Leicester College of Arts:

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STAMPS

Coventry Evening Telegraph 9/11/1968 Stamp designs by "Faith Jacques of Kensington"


 * 1978 Christmas stamps 7p, 9p,,11p and 13p
 * 1961 issue marking the 7th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference
 * 1960 one of the stamps to mark 300th anniversary of founding of the Post Office _____________________________

Selected Works
Writer and illustrator:


 * Tilly's House, Little Mammoth, 1979
 * Tilly's Rescue, Little Mammoth 1991
 * Kidnap in Willowbank Wood, Heinemann, London, 1982
 * The Village 1983
 * Little Grey Rabbit’s House (Cut out) 1982
 * Tales of Little Brown Mouse (Cut out) 1984

Illustrator only:

EXAMPLE: The Oak by the Waters of Rowan, by Spencer Kellogg Jr, Aries Press, New York, 1927


 * The true story of Jumbo the elephant by Eric Mathieson, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1963
 * Rescue in the snow , by Isobel Knight,  University of London Press, London,1963  INCORRECT BNB number??
 * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, Allen and Unwin, London, 1967
 * History of Costume (1966-70)


 * Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome Nelson, London, 1971

More books: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?9850
 * Carrie's War by Nina Bowden, Gollanz, London, 1973
 * Falter Tom and the water boy, by Maurice Duggan, Harmondsworth, London, 1974
 * London Apprentice series (1976-78) by Leon Garfield
 * BOOK by Philippa Pearce
 * Mr Buzz the beeman by Allan Ahlberg, Harmondsworth, Puffin, 1981
 * Good Girl Granny by Pat Thomson, Gollancz, London,1987.
 * Miss Dose the doctor's daughter by Allan Ahlberg Puffin, 1988
 * The Little Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes, Orchard, 1991
 * BOOK by Henry Treece.
 * BOOK by Henry Treece.