Robin Jacques was born in Chelsea, London and left school at fifteen to work for an advertising agency. He had no formal art training but became a free-lance illustrator in 1945 on being invalided out of the army. Art Editor of the Strand Magazine 1948-51 and teacher of art at various schools including Brighton, 1947-48, Harrow, 1977-79, and Canterbury 1979. He contributed to many magazines including Radio Times, Lilliput, The Listener, Punch and others. In 1963 he published “Illustrators at Work” for the Studio. He was a prolific illustrator working for the publishers Lunn and Westhouse in the early years and later for The Folio Society and the Limited Editions Club among many others. Ref: Horne;Peppin;Hodnett. John Keir Cross: “An Author Writes About His Illustrator” Alphabet & Image 7, May 1948.