Beryl Antonia Botterill b. 24 July 1907

Also known as Mrs Antonia Yeoman, Anton, Beryl Antonia Thompson, Botterill
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Mid 20th century cartoonist and illustrator, born in Brisbane. She moved to England as a young woman where she studied art under Stephen Spurrier at the Royal Academy Schools. She later formed a cartooning patnership with her brother under the pen name 'Anton'. Botterill also worked as a commercial and fashion artist and was the only female member of Punch magazine's Toby Club and the first woman

Citations

  • Bryant, Mark (1994), 'Antonia Yeomans’, Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists 1730-1980, Mark Bryant and Simon Heneage (eds.), Scolar Press, Aldershot, Hants, UK.

  • Yeoman, J. (ed.) (1974), 'Anton’, London, England.

  • Peppin, Brigid and Micklethwait, Lucy (1983), 'Dictionary of British Book Illustrators: the twentieth century’, London, England: John Murray, pp. 49-50.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists