Aubrey Beardsley
Black and White, Victorian or Modern?
About the Artist
Aubrey Beardsley (1872 – 1898) was born in 1872 in Brighton, England.Beardsley’s health was always fragile - he had his first reported attack of tuberculosis at the age of nine - the disease which was to reduce him to an invalid several times and finally cause his death. When in 1884 his mother became too ill to care for him and his sister, they were both packed off to live with an aunt nearby. He attended Bristol Grammar School for four years as a boarder, indulging in his talents by drawing caricatures of his teachers. In 1889, he was sent to London as a clerk in an insurance office. His recovered mother soon followed and remained to nurse her son for the rest of his short life.
Beardsley's first published work was "The Valiant," a poem in the JUne 1885 issue of Past and Present, the Brighton Grammar School magazine. Two years later his first reproduced drawings, a series of sketches, "The Jubilee Cricket Analysis," appeared in the same journal.
Beardsley's first published work was "The Valiant," a poem in the JUne 1885 issue of Past and Present, the Brighton Grammar School magazine. Two years later his first reproduced drawings, a series of sketches, "The Jubilee Cricket Analysis," appeared in the same journal.