born Aug. 21, 1872, Brighton, Sussex, Eng.
died March 16, 1898, Menton, Fr.
British illustrator.
His only formal training was a few months of evening classes at the Westminster School of Art. His style was based on the work of Edward Burne-Jones and Japanese woodcuts, and he quickly became a master of the curvilinear black-and-white ornamental illustration popularized by the Art Nouveau movement. In 1893 he illustrated an edition of Sir Thomas Malory 's Le Morte Darthur , and in 1894 he achieved notoriety with his erotic illustrations for the English version of Oscar Wilde 's Salome . He became art editor and illustrator of the new quarterly The Yellow Book that same year. He died at age 25 of tuberculosis.