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Sullivan, Edmund Joseph (E.J. Sullivan)
1869 - Edmund J. Sullivan was born and learned how to draw from his father, who was an artist. British book illustrator.
1888 - At age 19, Sullivan began his career at The Daily Graphic where he drew mainly portraits and the type of images we see as photographs in our current newspapers.
1893 - He joined the staff of the more prestigious Pall Mall Magazine, a weekly, where he added illustrating fiction to his repertoire.
1895 - The image he did for A London Garland, the first and only publication of the Society of Illustrators founded by Joseph Pennell.
1896 - He illustrated four books: Levengro (45 drawings), The Rivals and The School for Scandal (50 drawings), The Compleat Angler (89 drawings) and Tom Brown's Schooldays (78 drawings).
1899 - He provided illustrations( at left) for H.G. Wells stories in Pall Mall and even did some writing for the magazine.
1900 - He created A Dream of Fair Women with 40 plates featuring historical and fictional females.
1906 - He also illustrated fabulous tales by Herminie Templeton and others in McClures Magazine in the U.S.
1920 - Sullivan was one of the twenty illustrators invited to contribute to Percy V. Bradshaw's The Art of the Illustrator.
1922 - He wrote Line, which is his attempt to convey the more technical aspects of his craft, with many examples of his own devising.
1932 - Some of his latest illustrations were done for the famous Joseph Bibby, editor of Bibby's Annual. Towards the Light at left was done.
1932 - He died.
1888 - At age 19, Sullivan began his career at The Daily Graphic where he drew mainly portraits and the type of images we see as photographs in our current newspapers.
1893 - He joined the staff of the more prestigious Pall Mall Magazine, a weekly, where he added illustrating fiction to his repertoire.
1895 - The image he did for A London Garland, the first and only publication of the Society of Illustrators founded by Joseph Pennell.
1896 - He illustrated four books: Levengro (45 drawings), The Rivals and The School for Scandal (50 drawings), The Compleat Angler (89 drawings) and Tom Brown's Schooldays (78 drawings).
1899 - He provided illustrations( at left) for H.G. Wells stories in Pall Mall and even did some writing for the magazine.
1900 - He created A Dream of Fair Women with 40 plates featuring historical and fictional females.
1906 - He also illustrated fabulous tales by Herminie Templeton and others in McClures Magazine in the U.S.
1920 - Sullivan was one of the twenty illustrators invited to contribute to Percy V. Bradshaw's The Art of the Illustrator.
1922 - He wrote Line, which is his attempt to convey the more technical aspects of his craft, with many examples of his own devising.
1932 - Some of his latest illustrations were done for the famous Joseph Bibby, editor of Bibby's Annual. Towards the Light at left was done.
1932 - He died.
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