Helen stratton illustrator biography

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Helen Isobel Mansfield Ramsey Stratton was a British artist and book illustrator.

Helen Isobel Mansfield Ramsey Stratton (5 April – 4 June ) was a British artist and book illustrator.

Biography.

A popular turn-of-the-century illustrator, Helen Stratton lent her art-nouveau style to numerous works of fairy tale and folklore.

One source lists her birth year as approximately , and her date of death as June 4, , at the age of 95, and a kind reader has helped to.

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Born	Helen Isobel Mansfield Ramsey Stratton (1867-04-05)5 April 1867 Nowganj, India
Died	4 June 1961(1961-06-04) (aged 94) Bath, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Known for	Illustration
Movement	Art Nouveau

Helen Isobel Mansfield Ramsey Stratton (5 April 1867 – 4 June 1961) was a British artist and book illustrator.

Biography

Page 1 illustration from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Stratton was born in Nowganj, Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh, India on 5 April 1867, the daughter of a surgeon in the Indian military service John Proudfoot Stratton (1830–1895) and Georgina Anne Anderson.

Soon after Helen's birth, and following her father's retirement, the family moved to England, settling in Bath. By 1891 Helen was in Kensington, London to attend art school, where she became a follower of Art Nouveau in the style of the Glasgow School of Art.

For many years she lived and wo