# Harry Theaker

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{{Short description|English painter, illustrator (1873–1954)}}
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'''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](/source/Alice_(Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland)) from ''[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](/source/Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland)''.<ref name="Macmillan"/>

In 1911, with the approval of ''Alice'' illustrator [John Tenniel](/source/John_Tenniel), he was commissioned by the book's publisher [Macmillan](/source/Macmillan_Publishers) 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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Category:English children's book illustrators
Category:British fantasy artists

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