Aubrey Beardsley

English Art Nouveau/Golden Age Illustrator, 1872-1898 English draughtsman and writer. He was brought up in Brighton, in genteel poverty, by his mother. She gave her children an intensive education in music and books, and by the time he was sent to boarding-school at the age of seven Beardsley was exceptionally literate and something of a musical prodigy. He was also already infected with the tuberculosis that eventually killed him. There is evidence that his talent for drawing was highly developed by the age of ten, and he was subsequently encouraged by his housemaster at Brighton Grammar School, Arthur William King. Beardsley left school at the end of 1888, and in January 1889 became a clerk at the Guardian Life and Fire Insurance Company in the City of London. Attacks of haemorrhaging of the lungs forced him to abandon his job at the end of 1889. On the strength of a short story sold to Tit Bits he tried to pursue a literary career, but when his health improved in the spring of 1890, he returned both to his job and to drawing. Final affirmation of the direction of his art came in July 1891, when he showed his work to Edward Burne-Jones, who told Beardsley: 'I seldom or never advise anyone to take up art as a profession, but in your case I can do nothing else.


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Aubrey Beardsley Isolde oil


Isolde
Painting ID::  30883
Isolde
mk68 Lithograph London,British Library 1899 Britain
mk68 Lithograph London,British_Library 1899 Britain
   
   
     

Aubrey Beardsley The Peacock Sirt oil


The Peacock Sirt
Painting ID::  53333
The Peacock Sirt
mk229 1893 Black ink and pencil on paper
mk229 1893 Black_ink_and_pencil_on_paper
   
   
     

Aubrey Beardsley The Toilet of Salome oil


The Toilet of Salome
Painting ID::  53334
The Toilet of Salome
mk229 1893
mk229 1893
   
   
     

Aubrey Beardsley I have kissed your mouth lokanaan oil


I have kissed your mouth lokanaan
Painting ID::  53336
I have kissed your mouth lokanaan
mk229 1893 oil on canvas
mk229 1893 oil_on_canvas
   
   
     

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     Aubrey Beardsley
     English Art Nouveau/Golden Age Illustrator, 1872-1898 English draughtsman and writer. He was brought up in Brighton, in genteel poverty, by his mother. She gave her children an intensive education in music and books, and by the time he was sent to boarding-school at the age of seven Beardsley was exceptionally literate and something of a musical prodigy. He was also already infected with the tuberculosis that eventually killed him. There is evidence that his talent for drawing was highly developed by the age of ten, and he was subsequently encouraged by his housemaster at Brighton Grammar School, Arthur William King. Beardsley left school at the end of 1888, and in January 1889 became a clerk at the Guardian Life and Fire Insurance Company in the City of London. Attacks of haemorrhaging of the lungs forced him to abandon his job at the end of 1889. On the strength of a short story sold to Tit Bits he tried to pursue a literary career, but when his health improved in the spring of 1890, he returned both to his job and to drawing. Final affirmation of the direction of his art came in July 1891, when he showed his work to Edward Burne-Jones, who told Beardsley: 'I seldom or never advise anyone to take up art as a profession, but in your case I can do nothing else.

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