Kate Greenaway

Kate Greenaway (1846-1901), English watercolorist and illustrator, born in London, and educated at the Slade School. She showed her watercolor drawings at the Dudley Gallery, London, in 1868; then in 1873, Greenaway illustrated the children's book Little Folks and later, in 1877, began to draw for the Illustrated London News. In the following years she illustrated such commercially successful books as Mother Goose, Under the Window, and Little Ann. Greenaway's delicate, much-imitated style achieved a careful balance between figures and text. Her revival of the highwaisted Empire style of the early 19th century influenced children's clothes in her own day.