CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH (1846-1886), English artist and illustrator, was born at Chester on March 22, 1846, and died in Florida on Feb. 12, 1886. He was a prolific and original illustrator, gifted with a genial humorous faculty, and he succeeded also, though in less degree, as a painter and sculptor.
Old Christmas (1876) and Bracebridge Hall (1877), both by Washington Irving; North Italian Folk (1877), by Mrs. Comyns Carr; The Harz Moun tains (1883) ; Breton Folk (1879) , by Henry Blackburn; picture-books (John Gilpin, The House that Jack Built, and other children's favourites) from 1878 onwards; Some Aesop's Fables with Modern Instances, etc. (1883). He held a roving commission for the Graphic, and was an occasional contributor to Punch. He was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours. See Henry Blackburn, Randolph Caldecott, Personal Memoir of his Early Life (1886).
