Mabel Lucie Attwell Mabel Lucie Attwell Mabel Lucie Attwell (4 June 1879 – 5 November 1964) was a British illustrator and comics artist. She was known for her cute, nostalgic drawings of children, based on her daughter, Peggy. Her drawings are featured on many postcards, advertisements, posters, books and figurines. Attwell was born in Mile End, London, 4 June 1879, the sixth child of butcher Augustus Attwell and his wife Emily Ann. She was educated privately and at the Coopers' Company School and at the Regent Street school. She studied at Heatherley's and Saint Martin's School of Art, and but left to develop
Peggy Fortnum and Crafts in London. She worked as an art teacher, painter, and textile designer before becoming a full-time book illustrator. She has illustrated nearly eighty books (2015). Fortnum's first commission was for "Dorcas the Wooden Doll" by Mary Fielding Moore, published in 1944. Her best-known illustrations are of Michael Bond's character, Paddington Bear. The first illustrations of Paddington were made by Fortnum for "A Bear called Paddington". Fortnum's original illustrations were used for HarperCollins's 1998 reissue of "A Bear Called Paddington", which celebrated the first Paddington book's 40th anniversary. Although her pen-and-ink drawings of Paddington were done in black and