Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Illustrator (especially of magazines), watercolourist, cartoonist, portraitist, and painter (especially genre paintings). Born in Hackney, London. Trained at South Kensington School of Art and the Antwerp Academy. Mentored by Charles Verlat and Polydore Beaufaux. Exhibited extensively at the New Water-Colour Society, Royal Society of British Artists, and the Royal Academy. Contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers, including The Illustrated London News, The Sketch, and The English Illustrated Magazine. Biographical information: Benezit; Brigid Peppin and Lucy Micklethwait, Dictionary of British Book illustrators: The Twentieth Century, (London: Murray, 1983), p. 328. (NM)