Edward Linley Sambourne
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At the age of sixteen, he attended the school of art in South Kensington 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 April 27 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 largely as it has been in his lifetime and it is now open to the public as the Linley Sambourne House.
Examples of his work
Examples from his series of caricatures in Punch 1881-2, "Punch's Fancy Portraits":
More of Sambourne's caricatures from this series can be seen in the articles for
William Harrison Ainsworth,
Emma Albani,
Matthew Arnold,
Lord Charles Beresford,
George Granville Bradley,
Robert Browning,
Hugh Childers,
Lord Randolph Churchill,
Henry Drummond Wolff,
Henry Fawcett,
James Anthony Froude,
George Joachim Goschen,
Charles Gounod,
John Holker,
Henry Parry Liddon,
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury,
Henry Edward Cardinal Manning,
Ouida,
James Payn,
George Augustus Henry Sala,
William James Erasmus Wilson,
Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
See also Phylloxera
Trivia
When his great-grandson, Antony Armstrong-Jones was made the Earl of Snowdon, he took the subsidiary title Viscount Linley, which is currently used by his son, David Armstrong-Jones as a courtesy title.See also
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