Clifford Webb was an English artist, illustrator and author: RBA 1936, RE 1948.

He was apprenticed as a lithographer, served in the British Army ( Wiltshire Regiment) in World War I and then studied at the Westminster School of Art

Westminster School of Art

The Westminster School of Art was an art school in Westminster, London. It was located at 18 Tufton Street, Deans Yard, Westminster, and was part of the old Architectural Museum.H. M. Bateman described it in 1903 as...

. Fought in Mons, Gallipoli and Mesopotamina. Wounded four times and mentioned in Despatches. 1917 - 1919 served as Captain in the Indian Army.

1919-22 Studied a the Westminster School of Art under Walter Bayes and Bernard Meninsky. 1923-26 Part time lecturer at Birmingham Central School of Art.

He specialised in animal drawings, and produced illustrations for two of the earlier Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome; it was first published in 1930, with the action taking place in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District...

 books by Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome

Arthur Michell Ransome was an English author and journalist, best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. These tell of school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; other common subjects...

; initially for the second edition of Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome; it was first published in 1930, with the action taking place in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District...

 (as Ransome did not like the illustrations for the first edition by Steven Spurrier

Steven Spurrier

Steven Spurrier was a British artist and painter.After his apprenticeship to his silversmith father, Spurrier studied art and became a freelance magazine illustrator. His work appeared in magazines such as The Graphic, Illustrated London News and the Radio Times. He also produced posters for...

, which were not used apart from the endpaper map and the dust jacket). He then illustrated the second book, Swallowdale

Swallowdale

Swallowdale is the second book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. It was published in 1931. In this book, camping in the hills and moorland country around Ransome's Lake in the North features much more prominently and there is less sailing...

. But Ransome illustrated the third book, Peter Duck

Peter Duck

Peter Duck is the third book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. The Swallows and Amazons sail to Crab Island with Captain Flint and Peter Duck an old sailor to recover buried treasure...

 and subsequent books himself, and in 1938 produced replacement illustrations for later editions of Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome; it was first published in 1930, with the action taking place in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District...

 and Swallowdale

Swallowdale

Swallowdale is the second book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. It was published in 1931. In this book, camping in the hills and moorland country around Ransome's Lake in the North features much more prominently and there is less sailing...

.

Webb wrote and illustrated children’s books,

• The Story of Noah
• The Thirteenth Pig 1965
• Butterwick Farm 1933
• Animals from Everywhere 1938
• More Animals from Everywhere 1959
• The Story of Noah 1931
• A Jungle Picnic 1934
• The North Pole Before Lunch 1936
• The Friendly Place 1962
• Magic Island
• Strange Creatures 1963
• All Kinds of Animals 1970

His wife Ella Monkton authored a number of books which he illustrated:

• The Key and the Chest
• Tim Minds the Shop
• Tim Minds the Baby
• Tim thinks of Something
• The Top of the Mountain
• The Gates Family
• The Go-To-Bed book 1935

He also illustrated other books;

• Swallow and Amazons: Arthur Ransome, 1930
• Swallowdale : Arthur Ransome, 1931
• An Introduction to India : E Lucia Turnbull 1933
• A Key to the Countryside : Marcus Woodward 1934
• A Surgeons China : Albert Gervais 1934
• Words Beasts and Fishes : Marmaduke Dixey 1936
• The Hill Fox : Ernest Lewis 1937
• Under the Chesnut Tree : Ida Gandy 1938
• Creatures Great and Small: Theordora Horton 1938
• The Gentle Art of Walking : Geoffrey Murray, 1939
• The Pig who was too thin : Margaret Alleyne 1946
• The Enchanted Glen : Beatrice Carroll 1947
• Moss Green Days : Ralph Wightman 1952