Jennetta Vise

Jennetta Vise FSZ[1] (9 September 1912 – 26 October 1979) was an English book, comic and magazine illustrator.

She had an older sister, Barbara, who became assistant editor at Modern Woman magazine.

[3] Vise studied at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Sorbonne.

At the age of 18 Vise illustrated an article by her father, about which Tatler commented that people would “appreciate the skill of the two artists responsible for this joint word and pencil picture, which has quite a butterfly-like touch.”[6] She was represented by Grestock and Marsh, London.

[7] After “being discovered” by Margaret Playle, the general editor for the Girl Guide Association (GGA),[8] Vise illustrated the following publications: In 1935 she decorated a miniature rocking horse that was presented to British circus owner Bertram Mills by the Royal Veterinary College in recognition of his service to animals.