Ronald lampitt biography

Born in March 1906, Ronald was the oldest of the three boys born to Roland Edward Lampitt and Florence (nee Pope).
Brief Life History of Ronald George.
Ronald George Lampitt, born in Worcester on 16 March 1906, produced illustrations for magazines, including Zoo, Passing Show, Illustrated, Modern Wonder, John.

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Spring Landscape

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Ronald Lampitt (1906-1988) was born in Worcester, he lived in the Cotswolds and Kent and specialized in landscapes of the surrounding countryside. He painted mostly in watercolour.

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Ronald Lampitt ( 1906-88)

Born Worcester, 16/3/1906. Painter of landscapes and rural scenes in oils & watercolour, poster designer, book and magazine illustrator, including 'Zoo', 'Passing Show', 'Illustrated', 'Modern Wonder', 'John Bull', 'Look and Learn' and 'Treasure'. Book illustrations included work for Oxford University Press and Ladybird Books, many of them in collaboration with Henry James Deverson (1908-1972). His association with Deverson included working on the 'Mainly for Children' series published by the Sunday Times in the early 1960s, but also went deeper as Lampitt was married to H.J.'s sister, Mona Deverson (1911-1995), in 1938. The couple had two daughters, Judy and Susan.He Worked for Artists Partners Agency in London. Lived for many years in Sidcup, Kent. He died in October 1988, aged 82. Produced posters for GWR, SR, LMS & BR.

Produced artwork for LMR (C) series.

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This illustration, A Farm in February, is not from a Ladybird book, but it is by a Ladybird artist, Ronald Lampitt.

And if you're tempted to dismiss it as an exercise in nostalgia for that reason, you should read an article by Adam Chapman:

Lampitt has captured a time of change. The Labour government’s 1947 Agriculture Act secured prices and hastened investment and development and here we can see the tangible results in affordable technology. This farm is perhaps the result they imagined.
That’s most obvious in the juxtaposition of bright red tractors - the nearer pulling a disc harrow, breaking up the heavy Kentish clay, the further ploughing. The Second Word War brought American tractors to the British countryside in huge numbers (the same ‘Lend Lease’ programme supplied tanks and planes in their thousands).

Chapman also says:

Even the animals signify the time. The black and white cows that most urban dwellers think of as normal (on milk bottles and children's books) are Holstein Freisians, another post-war introduction. These were th