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The artist Victor Ambrus, who has died aged 85, instilled admiration and envy in colleagues for both the quality and the quantity of his work. He drew relentlessly, for television programmes, museum displays, postage stamps and Christmas cards, and especially children’s books – he stopped counting these, he told me, at 300. He could have had a brilliant career as a humorous caricaturist.
From interpreting Homer and Shakespeare, and the first edition of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse, to 20 years working with archaeologists on the Channel 4 TV series Time Team, Ambrus was one of Britain’s most outstanding illustrators, to be ranked with such of his childhood heroes as Arthur Rackham and EH Shepard. Yet Britain was his country of choice, not birth.