| A. J. Balliol Salmon | |
| Birth Name: | Arthur John Balliol Salmon |
| Birth Date: | 1 June 1868 |
| Birth Place: | Manchester, Lancashire, England |
| Death Place: | Northiam, East Sussex, England |
| Field: | Watercolourist, pastellist, draughtsman, illustrator |
Arthur John Balliol Salmon (1868 – 1953) was a British artist particularly noted for his illustrations and his work in pencil, chalk and pastels. He was one of the twenty leading illustrators selected by Percy V. Bradshaw for inclusion in his Art of the Illustrator.
Arthur John Balliol Salmon was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England on 1 June 1868. He was the son of Henry Curwen Salmon and Ellen Fennell, who had married on 6 May 1857. Balliol Salmon studied for a year under Fred Brown at the Westminster School, where his fellow pupils were F. H. Townsend and Fred Pegram. Salmon continued his training, together with Fred Pegram at Paris ateliers. He trained at the Academie Julian in Paris. He lived in Glasgow and London.
He pursued a career as teacher and illustrator, notably for The Graphic. Houfe wrote in his Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists (1996) that Balliol Salmon was one of the best pencil and chalk artists to work for the press in the Edwardian era.
Balliol Salmon was chosen by art instructor Percy V. Bradshaw as one of the artists to illustrate "The Art of the Illustrator", the seminal collection of twenty portfolios demonstrating six stages of a single painting or drawing by twenty different artists and published in 1918.[1]
Salmon was Angela Brazil's favourite among her illustrators with his lovely elongated schoolgirls. He illustrated seven of her books in the UK. Different illustrators were used for different markets. Freeman states that Salmon's illustrations were jettisoned for comic cartoons in France and winsomeness in America.
In the following list PG indicates whether the book is available on Project Gutenberg. The list is based on searches on Jisc library hub discover, checked against the bibliography in Sims and Clare's Encyclopedia of Girls' School Stories.
| 1 | The Jolliest Term on Record | Blackie, London | 1915 | 288 p., 8º | |
| 2 | The Luckiest Girl in the School | Blackie, London | 1916 | 296 p., 6 ill., 8º | |
| 3 | The Madcap of the School | Blackie, London | 1917 | 288 p., 8º | |
| 4 | A Patriotic Schoolgirl | Blackie, London | 1918 | 288 p., 6 ill., 8º | |
| 5 | For the School Colours | Blackie, London | 1918 | 288 p., 8º | |
| 6 | The Head Girl at the Gables | Blackie, London | 1919 | 288 p., 6 ill., 8º | |
| 7 | A Popular Schoolgirl | Blackie, London | 1920 | 288 p., 5 ill., 8º | |