Aubrey Vincent Beardsley - Artist Info

About Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

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    Only twenty-five years old at his death, Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) had a significant impact on art and illustration despite his short career. Born in Brighton, England, he lived in London most of his life, and died in Paris from tuberculosis, which had plagued him since childhood.

    His work influenced both the Art Nouveau movement the anti-Victorian Aesthetic movement popularized by the writings of Oscar Wilde and Algernon Swinburne and the art of James McNeill Whistler and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

    Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, son a a tradesman, began his adult working life in a London insurance company office. His clever and satirical cartoons caught the eye of artist Edward Burne-Jones, who persuaded Beardsley to pursue a care...

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