Richard Bennett’s Famous Sweethearts

In the 1910s one of the students at Bellevue’s Highland School was a young boy named Richard Bennett. He sketched a series of illustrations of “Famous Sweethearts” as a present for a girl in his class.

February 25, 2011 5:15 pm
'Evangeline and Gabriel' from Richard Bennett’s Famous Sweethearts.
'Evangeline and Gabriel' from Richard Bennett’s Famous Sweethearts.

In the 1910s one of the students at Bellevue’s Highland School was a young boy named Richard Bennett. He sketched a series of illustrations of “Famous Sweethearts” as a present for a girl in his class. The medium was pencil on the lined pages of a composition book. Bennett grew up to become an author and illustrator of over 200 children’s books.

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