HE doesn’t know it – or care – but that moggie lying on the windowsill soaking up the sun may not have been there without the help of a Victorian illustrator. There are 12million domestic cats in ...

A Louis Wain illustration of cats singing carols Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In 1886, a little-known artist named Louis Wain contributed a rollicking illustration of festive cats to the ...

Famed cat portraitist Louis Wain built his name on his eccentric depictions of felines, a story most recently told in Amazon Prime’s The Electrical Life of Louis Wain starring Benedict Cumberbatch. If ...

Cats and electricity obsessed Louis Wain (1860-1939). Painting felines made him famous. The images, relentlessly anthropomorphic, are very odd. As portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Electrical ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Let me be honest. I don’t like cats. Cats make me break out; cats make me ...

A forthcoming film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, is reviving the reputation of a popular illustrator known for depictions of cats that captivated Victorian ...

He was the cat’s meow. One hundred years ago, Louis Wain transformed the humble feline from vermin-catching critter to beloved beast with his whimsical drawings of anthropomorphized cats. His cute ...

Fresh off delivering the best and most unexpected performance of his career in Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” Benedict Cumberbatch retreats to more familiar territory in a whimsical Victorian ...

One of the most unusual and eccentric artists of the late 19th and early 20th Century spent some of his most productive years drawing in a sleepy Kent seaside town. Louis Wain, famous for his cat ...

"He had made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves." So proclaimed the ...

Benedict Cumberbatch fans are in for a treat this weekend with The Electrical Light of Louis Wain, a new biographical film that began streaming on Amazon Prime today. Directed by Will Sharpe, with a ...

English artist Louis Wain drew a lot of cats. Like, a lot of them; estimates range from somewhere around 150,000 to more than 250,000. Unsurprisingly, Wain cared for several cats himself. The Evening ...