The old chartist (detail)
By George C. Williamson
SANDYS, Antony Frederick, A.N., generally called Frederick Sandys, sometimes F. K. Sandys from his habit of signing the name Frederick thus, “Fk. Sandys.”
This clever artist was bom at Norwich in 1832, and educated at the Norwich Grammar School, applying himself at a very early age with earnestness to drawing and painting. He never attended the Royal Academy Schools as has been stated, and was not a pupil either of Richmond or Lawrence. Lawrence he never met but for a few minutes, and his acquaintance with Richmond was only as that of a family friend, and never the relationship of pupil and teacher… Read full article on Frederick Sandys »
Lithograph by H. Daumier
By Henry James.
As we attempt, at the present day, to write the history of everything, it would be strange if we had happened to neglect the annals of caricature; for the very essence of the art of Cruikshank and Gavarni, of Daumier and Leech, is to be historical; and every one knows how addicted is this great science to discoursing about itself. Many industrious seekers, in England and France, have ascended the stream of time to the source of the modern movement of pictorial satire. The stream of time is in this case mainly the stream of journalism; for social and political caricature, as the present century has practiced it, is only journalism made doubly vivid… Read full article on Honoré Daumier »
Engraved after a drawing by G. Doré
By Elbert Hubbard
It was at the Café de L’Horloge in Paris. Mr. Whistler sat leaning on his cane, looking off into space, dreamily and wearily.
He aroused enough to answer the question:
“Doré – Gustave Doré – an artist? Why, the name sounds familiar! Oh, yes, an illustrator. Ah, now I understand; but there is a difference between an artist and an illustrator, you know, my boy. Doré – yes, I knew him – he had bats in his belfry!”… Read full article on Gustave Doré »
Engraved after a drawing by F. de Courcy
Courcy Frédéric (de) was a painter, born Alexandre-Frédéric Charlot de Courcy in Paris, on 28 March 1832. His father, a writer of light comedies, was also known as Frédéric de Courcy. For the record, the cast of one of his plays, Le courrier de la malle (The mail coach agent, written with M. de Rougemont and C. Dupeuty and published in 1832) featured Henry Monnier (1799 – 1877), an actor and playwright, but also a renowed artist in the heyday of nineteenth century French book illustration… Read full article on Frédéric de Courcy »
From a drawing by L. Job-Vernet
Job-Vernet Léon – He was a painter, a pastellist and a lithographer born in Paris on 11 May 1830. He studied painting with Léon Cogniet (1764-1880) – who also taught Messonnier, Rosa Bonheur, Charbonnel… – and he was admitted at the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School Of Fine Arts) on 2 October 1844. Although he seemed to be travelling a lot and at some point to even divide his life between France and the United States, he managed to exhibit at the Paris Salon in 1849, 1850, 1853, 1857, 1859, 1868, 1869 and 1870.
In 1857 however, the year he probably did his series of drawings for… Read full article on Léon Job-Vernet »
Engraved after a lithograph by P. Gavarni
By Henri Beraldi
GAVARNI (Guillaume-Sulpice CHEVALLIER – He first signed his work Hippolyte Chevalier).
A mere article would hardly be adequate to encompass the work and the life of the artist who depicted the mores of the nineteenth century. We’ll simply try to give here essential biographical information and to outline the three phases in the evolution of Gavarni’s talent. Anyone willing to collect his work should get MM. Mahérault and Bocher’s catalogue.
Gavarni came to light relatively late, When he was already in his thirties. He was a Parisian, born 13 January 1804, rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes… Read full article on Paul Gavarni »
Engraved after a drawing by E. Marcelin
By Henri Beraldi
MARCELIN Émile (his real name was Émile PLANAT), 1825-1887. – From 1850 to 1870 he was, in Le Journal Amusant and L’Illustration at first, later in La Vie Parisienne, which he founded, the special cartoonist for humorous pages on stylish life. 1860 socialites, the Opera of rue Lepelletier and Les Italiens, first nights and parties, dances at the Tuileries and variety shows, feasts and pleasures, Baden and Trouville were his… Read full article on Émile Marcelin »
