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Artist:E. J. Sullivan / Edmund Joseph (E.J.) Sullivan (British, 1869 - 1933)Title: \"Empire Club Dinner for Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Alexander MacDonald\"Medium: Original Antique Copper & Wood Engraving - 1884Signature: Signed by the Artist in the plate, as shownEdition: Publication believed to be 5000Size: 12 x 16 inches (total paper)Printer:William Luson Thomas (British, 1830 - 1900)Publisher:Illustrated Newspapers Ltd. at The GraphicNote:The influence of The Graphic within the art world was immense; its many admirers included Vincent van Gogh and Hubert von Herkomer.Provenance: Hatay Stratton Fine Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
About the Artist:Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933), usually known as E. J. Sullivan, was a British book illustrator who worked in a style which merged the British tradition of illustration from the 1860s with aspects of Art Nouveau.Sullivan was the son of an artist. He, however, decided to concentrate on the emerging field of graphic design and book illustration, which was flourishing at the end of the nineteenth century. Sullivan worked at the Daily Graphic from the age of nineteen, moving to the Pall Mall Magazine in 1893. During this period he produced standard news and portrait illustrations, but began to work on illustrations to literature at the Magazine. He soon graduated to the more prestigious role of book illustrator, producing illustrations for editions of Lavengro and the plays School for Scandal and The Rivals. Sullivan\'s style is comparable to that of Aubrey Beardsley, but is more romantic than Beardley\'s acerbic manner.
