Eccentric artist was famed for outlandish drawings produced while a patient at ‘Bedlam’ psychiatric hospital
“He has made the cat his own,” HG Wells once said of Louis Wain. “English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.”
A hundred years ago Wain was a household name, his instantly recognisable drawings of anthropomorphic cats appearing in books, magazines and postcards.