Christine Hammond (June 1860 - 1900)

RA Collection: People and Organisations

Book illustrator active in the 1890s. She illustrated texts by Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth, W. M. Thackeray, George Eliot and a number of others. She contributed a number of illustrations to Pall Mall Magazine (1891–2), The Quiver (1894–5), Pearson’s Magazine (1896) and The Idler (1892). In 1894 she became the principal illustrator for St Pauls Magazine,

She was also a painter, exhibiting eighteen genre pieces at the Royal Academy (1886, 1889, 1890, 1893, 1894), The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, the Grosvenor Galleries and in the galleries in Suffolk Street.

Her sister, Gertrude E. Demain Hammond (1862-1952) was also a painter and illustrator.