born Aug. 29, 1817, London, Eng.
died Oct. 29, 1864, London
British caricaturist.
He gave up the study of medicine to produce comic sketches and etchings for magazines, notably Punch . He collaborated with George Cruikshank but later departed from the horrific and satirical elements of traditional English caricature to develop his own style of comfortable, warmly humorous middle-class urbanity, underlining character by emphatic contrasts of stock types. With John Tenniel he created the image of John Bull, a jovial, foursquare Englishman, sometimes in a Union Jack waistcoat, with a bulldog at heel.