Charles Altamont Doyle

Charles Altamont Doyle
Born(1832-03-25)25 March 1832
London, England
Died10 October 1893(1893-10-10) (aged 61)
Dumfries, Scotland
NationalityScottish
Known forWatercolours, Illustrations
Spouse
Mary Foley
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(m. 1855)​
Children9 or 10, including Arthur Conan Doyle
Parent(s)John Doyle
Marianna Conan Doyle

Self Portrait (1888) by Charles Altamont Doyle. In the original, he has written "That's his guardian angel over the left, utterly disgusted".[1]

Charles Altamont Doyle (25 March 1832 – 10 October 1893) was an illustrator, watercolourist and civil servant. A member of an artistic family, he is remembered today primarily for being the father of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of fictional character Sherlock Holmes.[2]

  1. ^ "Self portrait". National Gallery of Scotland. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  2. ^ The Dictionary of Scottish Painters. 1600 to the present. Paul Harris and Julian Halsby. Canongate Publishing. 1990.