Smiles for Mabel Lucy Atwell’s 16 children
Mabel Lucy Atwell (1879-1964) began her formal artistic training at St Martin’s School of Art in London, but abandoned her courses to pursue a career that saw her produce those sentimentalised depictions of chubby, mostly cheery, rosy cheeked children.
Hugely successful, her illustrations were reproduced in books, adverts, as well as on toys and She…