London Sketch Club

The London Sketch Club was founded on 1 April 1898 as a social club for artists working in the field of commercial graphic art, mainly for newspapers, periodicals and books. The founder members were Dudley Hardy, Phil May, Walter Fowler, Lance Thackeray, Cecil Aldin, W Sanders Fiske, Walter Churcher, Tom Browne and its first president George Charles Haité, Hon. Sec. Frederick (aka Frank) Hamilton Jackson. Members of the Club have included John Hassall, H.M. Bateman, Salomon van Abbé, Terence Cuneo and David Langdon.

See also

• List of London's gentlemen's clubs

References

• Andrew Duncan (2008), Walking London (6 ed.), New Holland Publishers, p. 38, ISBN 9781847730541, http://books.google.com/?id=YDAqXNNpGLsC&pg=PA38&dq=%22London+Sketch+Club%22&q=%22London%20Sketch%20Club%22, retrieved 07-08-2009 

• Philippe Kaenel (2005) (in French), Le métier d'illustrateur, 1830-1880: Rodolphe Töpffer, J-J Grandville, Gustave Doré (2 ed.), Librairie Droz, p. 543, ISBN 9782600005319, http://books.google.com/?id=-DvqQEhMG6wC&pg=PA543&dq=%22London+Sketch+Club%22+Dudley+Hardy&q=%22London%20Sketch%20Club%22%20Dudley%20Hardy, retrieved 07-08-2009 

1898 The Pall Mall Gazette April 2

External links

• The London Sketch Club