[1] Arthur was born and raised in St Pancras, London by his father, Richard Dixon, a grainer, and his mother Rosa.
[1] In 1899, Arthur married Cecil Elsie Soweby in Steyning and together they had one daughter born a year later.
[1][2] Arthur was a prolific illustrator in his time and made illustrations for reprints of around thirty-five classic works by Charles Dickens, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Charles Kingsley, Victor Hugo, Elizabeth Gaskell and Washington Irving .
[3][1][2] The style he employs has been termed 'neo-Pre-Raphaelite' which was indicative of his peers such as Byam Shaw or Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale.
[5] Dixon was characterised by the Dictionary of British Book Illustrators as 'generally competent' and 'conventional and prosaic with sentimental overtones'.