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Arthur Barbosa

Artur Ernesto Teixeira de Vasconcelos Barbosa was an artist best known for his distinctive cover illustrations for Georgette Heyer and George MacDonald Fraser's The Flashman Papers novels, which he produced for 17 and 25 years respectively. Although always anglicising his first name, he disliked modern familiarity and preferred being known as Barbosa.

Biography
He was born in Liverpool, his father was a Portuguese vice-consul, and his mother half-French. He continued working until a few months before his death and won a Golden Clio award for British sherry label designs featuring portraits of the Duke of Wellington and Edward Elgar He developed a strong interest in royalty and assembled an extensive collection of original photographs of members of European and Russian royal families from 1850 to 1914. ==Personal life==
Personal life
He was married three times but had no children, his last marriage to Isobel lasted 34 years until his death in 1995, aged 89 despite his long-held belief that the ideal marriage was a contract for nine years. ==References==
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