Faith Jaques (1923 - 1997)

RA Collection: People and Organisations

British Illustrator. First studying at Leicester College of Art (1941-42), she joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service and was posted to Oxford. While there, she managed to take some lessons at Oxford School of Art under William Roberts and Bernard Meninsky, and it was then that she decided to become an illustrator. From early on, her favourite illustrators had been Rex Whistler and Eric Fraser. Demobbed in December 1945, Jaques went to the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London.