Hilary Stebbing (1915-1996) was an artist, illustrator and children's author particularly associated with Puffin Books, and active in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1960s.
She was a student at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in the late 1930s, where she was a contemporary of Monica Walker[1] and the stained-glass artist, conservator and author John ‘Jack’ Baker, whom she married in 1946.
[4] She exhibited at Court Lodge Gallery, Horton Kirby, Dartford, Derbyshire County Council Museum Service and Rye Society of Artists.
[6] Two limited edition giclee prints were produced in 2022 to support development of the new House of Illustration at New River Head in Islington, London.
[7] In October 2022, Stebbing was included alongside Kathleen Hale, Eric Ravilious, Edward Ardizzone, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse in the exhibition 'Picture Books For All: the fine printing of W. S. Cowell Ltd.' at The Hold heritage centre in Ipswich.