Simon brett net worth

Simon Brett was born in Windsor in 1943. He was brought up in London, educated in Yorkshire at Ampleforth College and learned wood engraving from Clifford Webb at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, where he studied principally as a painter (1960-64). Still thinking of himself as a painter, he travelled to New Mexico, Denmark and Provence (1965-70). Between 1971 and 1989, while teaching at Marlborough College Art School in Wiltshire, he moved from painting to engraving. Between 1981 and 1988, he published books under his own Paulinus Press imprint, winning the Francis Williams Illustration Award (National Book League / Victoria and Albert Museum) for the first of them, The Animals of Saint Gregory, in 1981. Since 1989 he has worked as a self-employed artist. Commissioned illustration includes The Reader's Digest Bible and, for The Folio Society, such classic titles as Clarissa, Jane Eyre, The Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Folio Golden Treasury, which he also picture edited, Middlemarch, the poetry of Keats, Shelley and Byron, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, a