Sidney herbert sime biography

Sidney Herbert Sime he usually signed his works as S. H. Sime — was an early 20th century English artist, mostly remembered for his fantastic and satirical.
Sidney Herbert Sime was born in Manchester in 1865 (a date confirmed by researches during 2014; some sources have previously quoted 1867).
Sime was born in Manchester but the family soon moved to Liverpool.

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Sidney Herbert Sime (1865-1941) was a talented artist, illustrator and caricaturist.

Born in Manchester, Sime’s family was poor, and at a young age he was sent to work in the Yorkshire mining pits where conditions were bleak. Later he became a successful signwriter, enabling him to study at the Liverpool School of Art, where he won prizes. Moving to London, his extraordinary imagination was soon noticed by the artist and writer Jerome K Jerome, artist, who was editor of The Idler. He became a prolific illustrator, for many magazines including the Illustrated London News, Pall Mall, Graphic, Tatler, Pick-Me-Up, and Punch, during the late 1890s and early 1900s in particular.

In 1904 – following his marriage in 1898 and a move to Scotland – Sime settled in Crown Cottage, Worplesdon, an old coaching inn with a stable block that he converted into his studio. He frequented the New Inn opposite, later sketching caricatures of the local working men and tradesmen.

He enjoyed visiting London’s gentlemen’s clubs, where he mixed with like-minded members including his musical fr

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Sidney H. Sime

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Sidney H. Sime

83 artworks

Symbolist, Golden Age Illustrator, painter and illustrator

Born 1867 - Died 1941

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'Sidney Sime is probably the greatest imaginative English artist since Blake.' Hannen Swaffer, The Graphic, 1922

Sime was also compared to Goya and Beardsley, he had an 'inherent bent towards mystery' and looked every inch the author of his drawings as an irresistible humourist, thinker and inventive artist, as well as a brilliant black and white illustrator.

Art UK has recorded all of his oil paintings that are in his Gallery at Worplesdon Memorial Hall, near Guildford. It was purpose built and stores nearly 800 paintings, illustrations, and memorabilia, all of which were bequeathed by Sime's widow, Mary, following her death in 1949.

His reputation has languished for many years and his talent been neglected. However, his own self-doubt, arrogance, individuality, and later laziness, contributed to this slide into anonymity.

His abhorrence of Exhibitions ('that last infirmity of senile kind') and the effect of the First World War when artists tended to combine, join movements and become serious and socially conscious left Sime somewhat isolated, unlike others such as Arthur R