Frank Reynolds

British painter and illustrator Frank Reynolds, was the son of artist William George Reynolds, who was from County Meath in Ireland and moved to London’s Notting Hill where he opened a picture framing shop and also painted Constable-style landscapes which he exhibited and sold in his shop.

Frank Reynolds was best known for his book illustrations for the writer Charles Dickens, and later also for his watercolors. During and after World War I he regularly published in the London Magazine, The Sketch, Punch (where he was art editor 1920-30), Windsor Magazine and The Illustrated London News. He studied at Heatherley’s School of Art. Possibly his most famous contribution to Punch was his World War I cartoon, Study of a Prussian Household Having its Morning Hate. Reynolds was also considered a good cricketer.