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    Charles Altamont Doyle was the father of author Arthur Conan Doyle. He was an Irish artist born in England who struggled with alcoholism and depression. To support his growing family, he illustrated many books in addition to his full-time job, but was unsuccessful as an artist. In later life, he was committed to an asylum due to alcoholism, where he continued producing illustrations until his death.

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    Charles Altamont Doyle was the father of author Arthur Conan Doyle. He was an Irish artist born in England who struggled with alcoholism and depression. To support his growing family, he illustrated many books in addition to his full-time job, but was unsuccessful as an artist. In later life, he was committed to an asylum due to alcoholism, where he continued producing illustrations until his death.

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    Charles Altamont Doyle was the father of author Arthur Conan Doyle. He was an Irish artist born in England who struggled with alcoholism and depression. To support his growing family, he illustrated many books in addition to his full-time job, but was unsuccessful as an artist. In later life, he was committed to an asylum due to alcoholism, where he continued producing illustrations until his death.

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    Doyle was the son of artist John Doyle, the political cartoonist known as H.B.

    , and Marianna Conan


    Doyle. Three of his older brothers in the family of seven children were artists: James William
    Edmund Doyle, Richard "Dickie" Doyle, and Henry Edward Doyle.[2] The family was
    of Irish background but Doyle was born and raised in England. Similarly to his elder brother Richard,
    he had no formal training, apart from lessons in his father's studio.[3]

    Life and career[edit]


    In 1849 he moved to Edinburgh, to take up a post at the Scottish Office of Works where he was
    employed as an assistant surveyor.[4] On 31 July 1855, he married Mary Foley (1837–1920), his
    landlady's daughter.[5] Together they became parents to several children (sources debate whether it
    was nine or ten), seven of whom survived childhood, including Arthur Conan Doyle, John Francis
    Innes Hay (known as Innes or Duff), and Jane Adelaide Rose (known as Ida).
    To support his growing family, in addition to full-time employment he continued to produce
    illustrations for at least 23 books, as well as several designs for journals. These included editions
    of The Pilgrim's Progress (1860) and Robinson Crusoe (1861), Beauty and the Beast (late
    1860s), The Queens of Society (1872), and Our Trip to Blunderland (1877) a parody of Lewis
    Carroll.[4]
    Although he exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy,[6] Doyle was not as successful an artist as he
    wanted, and had depression and alcoholism. His paintings, which were generally of fairies, such
    as In the shade or A Dance Around The Moon, or similar fantasy scenes, reflected his mood,
    becoming more macabre over time.

    Meditation, Self Portrait 1885–1893, by Charles Altamont Doyle

    In 1876 he was dismissed from his job and given a pension;[7] in 1881 Doyle's family sent him to
    Blairerno House, a "home for Intemperate Gentlemen". After several escapades, in 1885 he
    was sectioned after managing to "procure drink", and becoming aggressively excited, remaining
    confused and incoherent for several days afterwards, and was sent to Sunnyside, Montrose Royal
    Lunatic Asylum. While there, his depression grew worse, and he began
    experiencing epileptic seizures and problems with short-term memory loss due to the effects of long
    term drinking,[8] although he continued to paint. He completed illustrations for the July 1888 edition of
    the first Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet by his son.[9] During his period at the asylum he
    continued to work, producing volumes of drawings and watercolours in sketchbooks with fantasy
    themes such as elves, faerie folk, and scenes of death and heavenly redemption, with
    accompanying notes featuring wordplay and visual puns, described as a "sort of bucolic
    phantasmagoria: mammoth lilypads and leafy branches, giant birds and mammals, sinister blossoms
    sheltering demons and damsels alike".[10] Doyle created these illustrations to both protest his
    confinement and provide evidence of his sanity, sending the drawings to his family as proof that he
    had been wrongfully committed, writing "Keep steadily in view that this Book is ascribed wholly to the
    produce of a MADMAN. Whereabouts would you say was the deficiency of intellect? Or depraved
    taste?"[11] At other times he was more contented, contributing drawings and articles to the asylum's
    newsletter and sketching the staff.[8] On the 23rd of January 1892 he was admitted as a patient to
    the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, and remained there until the 26th of May 1892.[12]
    In May 1892 he was moved to the Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries where he died from "a fit
    during the night" on 10 October 1893.[8]
    He was buried in the High Cemetery in Dumfries.

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