{{Short description|English painter, illustrator (1873–1954)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Use British English|date=February 2026}}
'''Harry George Theaker''' (1873 – 23 January 1954),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Richmond |first1=Velma Bourgeois Richmond |title=Chivalric Stories as Children's Literature |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland |page=97}}</ref> was an English illustrator, designer, educator, and painter.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Theaker, Harry George, 1873–1954 |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/theaker-harry-george-18731954 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250123011408/https://artuk.org/discover/artists/theaker-harry-george-18731954 |archive-date=2025-01-23 |access-date= |website=Art UK |language=en}}</ref> He is best known for establishing the colours associated with Alice from ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''.<ref name="Macmillan"/>
In 1911, with the approval of ''Alice'' illustrator John Tenniel, he was commissioned by the book's publisher Macmillan to colour sixteen of Tenniel’s plates for an edition of ''Alice'' in which he coloured her dress blue – which has remained so in the popular imagination ever since.<ref name="Macmillan">{{cite book |last1=Carroll |first1=Lewis |title=Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Celebrating the 160th Anniversary of the Macmillan Alice |date=2025 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |chapter=About the Author}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=John Tenniel’s original Alice in Wonderland illustrations |url=https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/books-for-children/john-tenniel-alice-in-wonderland-illustrations |access-date=29 November 2025 |publisher=Pan Macmillan}}</ref>
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