Maurice Greiffenhagen RA (1862 - 1931)

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British painter and Royal Academician. He illustrated books and designed posters as well as painting idyllic landscapes.

Exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1884, he was made an Associate Member in 1916 and a Royal Academician in 1922. He taught at the Glasgow School of Art from 1906 until 1926. Greiffenhagen exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art in 1921.

His friendship with Sir Henry Rider Haggard led to him illustrating the author’s popular adventure books, starting with an edition of She: A History of Adventure in 1889. He illustrated the serialisation of Ayesha The Return of She (1904–05) and that of The Holy Flower (1913–14) in the Windsor Magazine.