William Henry Barribal - Artist

By the turn of the 20th century Barribal was established as an accomplished and extremely active commercial artist and designer. In the 1920s and 1930s he created a range of posters for Schweppes and for the London and North Eastern Railway. He also worked for many magazines including Vogue, Illustrated London News, The Strand and The Graphic. He lived and worked from one of St Pauls studios on the Cromwell Road in London, and his wife Gertrude Louise Fannie Pitt was his principal model. He exhibited at London's Royal Academy and elsewhere. His images of exquisite and fashionable Edwardian women have become classics and the work of many modern fashion artists shows traces of the unmistakable 'Barribal style'.