Adrian Allinson

Francesca Allinson Adrian Paul Allinson ROI (9 January 1890 – 20 February 1959) was a British painter, potter and engraver known for his landscapes of Southern Europe and North Africa, and for a series of notable posters he made for London Transport.

[4][5] His mother, the granddaughter of a Polish rabbi, was a portrait painter who had studied in Berlin.

[2] A pacifist, Allinson associated himself with the Bloomsbury Group during the First World War, producing drawings for the Daily Express newspaper and one of his most important works, a scene inside the Café Royal made in 1915–16.

[13][5] During the 1930s he made a series of posters for London Transport,[14] and for the Empire Marketing Board.

Some months before his death, he participated in the creation of a wax sculpture of Kwame Nkrumah for Madame Tussauds.