Beardsley

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 820

Beardsley, AUBREY, a remarkable designer in black and white, born at Brighton in 1874, for a while was in an architect's, and then in a fire-insurance office. He began working for the illustrated papers in 1892, and became well known through his illustrations in the Yellow Book (1894, &c.) and a long series of publications. He turned Catholic in 1897, and died 18th March 1898.

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