Overend, William Heysham
William Heysham Overend (October 5, 1851 - March 18, 1898) was a British artist, renowned for his marine art, and book illustrator. Overend showed artistic promise from an early age and was educated at Bruce Castle School. After leaving school, Overend spent three years working in Davis Cooper's studio, where he received a more traditional training in art. Overend began his career as a painter and his first successful submission to the Royal Academy occurred in 1872 and found success after that. He moved into illustration sometime later and started working for the Illustrated London News in 1875. He spent the next decade as an extremely successful illustrator for the Illustrated London News, second only to Richard Caton Woodville. He illustrated for numerous other periodicals, including The Magazine of Art, the Rambler, the English Illustrated Magazine, and others. Overend also worked as an engraver, recording his occupation in the 1891 census as 'steel engraver'. Over the course of his career, Overend developed a reputation as one of the best naval illustrators of the era, with a knowledge of past and present warships equaled by very few people, and yet he never served in the Navy and neither did any members of his family.
One of the earliest images of British Association football (err... soccer).
A Football Match Association Game.
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This is an 1891 William Heysham Overend and Lionel Percy Smythe view of an English football (soccer) match. This is one of the earliest images of soccer / football after the 1888 founding of the British Football League. The view captures the moment when the keeper (goalie) for the 'white shirt' team is about to (hopefully) throw the ball to one of his teammates. (more details)