Linley Sambourne, Edward - Drawing Room Linley Sambourne House 1892 - postcard

Art Postcard

 

• Work of art title:  Drawing Room, Linley Sambourne House, 1892
• Artist (if known):  Edward Linley Sambourne
• Media or other details:  photograph
• Publisher / Gallery:  Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea & Victorian Society
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
• Notes & condition details: has date written on back

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Stock No.:A237

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Edward Linley Sambourne (4 January 1844, Pentonville � 3 August 1910) was a cartoonist for Punch. He was born in Pentonville, London, the son of Edward Moot Sambourne.

His middle name of Linley comes from his mother's maiden name, Frances Linley, and gives rise to title Viscount Linley borne by his descendants, e.g. the (1st) Earl of Snowdon and his son.

At the age of sixteen, Edward Linley Sambourne attended the South Kensington School of Art for a short time, but then left and began working for John Penn & Sons, an engineering firm in Greenwich. Sambourne worked here as an engineering draughtsman, but bored with the work, he spent most of his time making sketches. A fellow worker, Alfred Reed, finding one of the sketches particularly amusing, showed the sketch to his father, German Reed, a friend of the then Punch editor, Mark Lemon in early 1867. Lemon was sufficiently impressed by the sketch that he published a drawing by Sambourne in the 27 April 1867 issue, of John Bright tilting at a quintain under the title of ""Pros and Cons"". Sambourne was a contributor to Punch for the next four decades. In 1871 he became the regular illustrator for the ""Essence of Parliament"" feature. By 1878 he was named the ""cartoon junior"", second only to John Tenniel.

Besides his work for Punch, he occasionally produced work for other magazines, and also produced illustrations for an 1885 edition of Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies.

In 1901, he became the chief cartoonist for Punch, taking over after John Tenniel's retirement. After his death his family preserved his Holland Park home as it was in his lifetime, and it is now open to the public as the Linley Sambourne House.