Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Illustrator, painter, war artist, and war correspondent. Alternative signature: Irving Montagu. Flourished 1873-1893. Specialized in townscapes and paintings of the Russo-Turkish War. Special Artist for The Illustrated London News (1874-). Contributed to Punch. Married Cecilia Borrell. Exhibited at Suffolk Street Gallery. Author of Camp and Studio (1890) and Wandering of a War Artist (1889). Biographical information: Houfe 393; Wood 324; BL; Patricia Neate, All My Darlings: A Victorian Family in their Own Words, Matador, 2018, p. 514. (AC, CC)