Edmund
Sullivan
was born in London in 1869. He studied
art with his father and at the age of twenty began contributing to
various publications including the Daily
Graphic, Daily Chronicle,
Pall Mall Gazette, The
Windsor Magazine
and Punch Magazine.
Sullivan was also a highly influential lecturer in book illustration
at Goldsmith's College in London. Books
illustrated by Sullivan included Tom
Brown's Schooldays
by Thomas Hughes (1896), The
Pirate
by Walter Scott (1898), The
Rivals
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1896),
A
Modern Utopia
by H. G. Wells (1905) and The
French Revolution
by Thomas Carlyle (1910)
After news of German atrocities in
Belgium and the execution of Edith
Cavell, Sullivan produced a book of drawings called The
Kaiser's Garland
(1915). Similar in style to the work of Louis
Raemaekers, Sullivan's book was used as part of the First
World War propaganda campaign against Germany. In 1921 he published
the influential book, The
Art of Illustration.
Edmund
Sullivan
died in 1933.
Edmund
Sullivan, Prince Wilhelm, from
The Kaiser's Garland ( 1915)
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