page_title: Frederick Walker (painter)
section_title: The Illustrator
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick Walker (painter) / Life and work / The Illustrator
caption_attribution_description: English: Summer Days
context_page_description: Frederick Walker ARA RWS was a British social realist painter and illustrator described by Sir John Everett Millais as "the greatest artist of the century".
context_section_description: In 1859 he joined the Artists' society in Langham Chambers, and from 1860–65 achieved great success as a black and white illustrator for popular journals of the day such as Cornhill Magazine, Once a Week, Good Words, Everybody's Journal, and Leisure Hour. Much of his work during this period was engraved by Joseph Swain. He was introduced to satirist and author William Thackeray, the Cornhill's editor, for whom he provided drawings (e.g. "Comfort in grief") for "The Adventures of Philip", initially published as a serial but then as a book in 1862. He also illustrated Thackeray's unfinished novel "Denis Duval", magazine stories by Thackeray's daughter Ann Ritchie (many of these drawings later reproduced in watercolour), and provided drawings (e.g. "Summer days") for the Dalziel brothers which appeared in 2 poetry books, "A Round of Days" and "Wayside Posies".
caption: Summer days (1866)
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