Frank Feller (1848–1908[1]) was a Swiss artist who settled in England and made a career as an illustrator and painter.

[3] By 1871 Feller was a boarder at 6 Euston Grove, St Pancras, London with the profession of Artist.

Feller married Christine Heuser[note 1] (Q2 1863 – 15 June 1930),[5] [6] on 19 December 1882 at All Saints' Church in Wandsworth, London.

Her father, Balthazar Heuser (c. 1832 – 8 June 1887),[8] ran a Public House here, the Bee-Hive at 71 Christian Street, Whitechapel, London.

[4] The couple had eight children: By 1891 Feller was living at Hazeldene, Knight's Park, Kingston-on-Thames, and described himself as an Artist: Military Painter.

[40] In its obituary,[41] The Boy's Own Paper stated that he would be most remembered for: In 1882 Feller completed what is probably his most famous work, The Last Eleven at Maiwand.

These were for Gipsy Mike or, Firm as a Rock published by John F. Shaw and Co., London,[note 9] and G. A. Henty's Out on the Pampas.

[note 10] While the illustrations for Gipsy Mike were pen and ink drawings, those for Out on the Pampas were wash-drawings.

were poorly reproduced by halftone blocks made with too fine a screen for the paper they were printed on.

"[3] Feller was one of two illustrators whose work for Henty suffered the most from being printed on paper that was too low a quality for the fineness of halftone blocks used.

[note 13] However by using Jisc, Abe Books, and newspaper archives, it is possible to build a partial list of authors whose work was illustrated by Feller.

[74] Image searches, and the Tuck Database,[75] show that Feller contributed to many different series of postcards including: Unfortunately Raphael Tuck & Sons, for whom Feller did a great deal of work, had their premises destroyed, together with 40,000 original drawings and all their records, on 29 December 1940, during The Blitz.

[76] Feller was living at 8 Wetherby Terrace, Earls Court, London, when he died from a heart attack on 6 March 1908.