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| Born in Pickering, North Yorkshire, Kipling was an illustrator, conservationist, and museum curator, as well as the father of author Rudyard Kipling. A gifted artist, he began his career as an architectural sculptor at the South Kensington Museum, now the Victoria and Albert Museum. He went on to create interior decorations for the museum and for the Crawford Market in Bombay. From 1875 to 1893, he served as curator of the Lahore Museum in India. Kipling also worked as a book illustrator, contributing to many of his son’s works, including The Jungle Book, as well as his own. His art combined ethnographic realism with decorative craftsmanship, rooted in the Arts and Crafts movement, marked by detailed illustrations, architectural reliefs, and portrayals of Indian artisans that balanced colonial documentation with aesthetic admiration. Spending much of his life in British India, he taught at the Bombay School of Art and later became principal of the Mayo School of Art, where he promoted the preservation and recognition of indigenous arts, collaborating with local artisans, documenting their techniques, and advocating for their inclusion in British and international circles. Kipling died in Tisbury, Wiltshire. | ||||||||||
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