Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Beardsley was born in Brighton, England, United Kingdom on August 21st, 1872 and is the Illustrator. At the age of 25, Aubrey Beardsley biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was a British illustrator and author.
His drawings in black ink, inspired by Japanese woodcuts' style, emphasised the grotesque, decadent, and the sexual.
He was a central figure in the twentieth century's aesthetic movement, which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler.
Despite the brevity of his career prior to his early death from tuberculosis, Beardsley's contribution to the growth of Art Nouveau and poster styles was highly influential.
Private life
Beardsley was both a public and a private eccentric. "I have one aim—the grotesque," he said. I am nothing if I am not grotesque." Beardsley had "a face like a silver hatchet" and green hair, according to Wilde. Beardsley was extremely particular with his clothes: dove-grey suits, hats, ties, and yellow gloves. He appeared in a morning coat and court shoes at his publisher's house.
Although Beardsley was a member of the homosexual clique that included Oscar Wilde and other aesthetes, the truth of his sexuality are uncertain. Mabel's incestuous brotherhood, who may have become pregnant by her brother and miscarried, are among the speculations regarding his sexuality.
Beardsley had recurrent tuberculosis attacks throughout his entire career. He had frequent lung disease and was often unable to work or leave his house.
In March 1897, Beardsley converted to Catholicism. Leonard Smithers and close friend Herbert Pollitt wrote to him next year, the last letter before his death.
Both men dismissed Beardsley's wishes, and Smithers soon began to sell reproductions as well as forgeries of Beardsley's work.
Early life, education, and early career
Beardsley was born in Brighton, Sussex, England, on 21 August 1872 and christened on 24 October 1872. His father, Vincent Paul Beardsley (1839–1909), was the son of a Clerkenwell jeweler; Vincent had no trade himself (partly owing to inherited tuberculosis, from which his own father had died aged only 40), and relied on a private income from an inheritance that he received from his maternal grandfather, a property developer, when he was 21. Vincent's wife, Ellen Agnus Pitt (1846–1932), was the daughter of Surgeon-Major William Pitt of the Indian Army. The Pitts were a well-established and respected family in Brighton, and Beardsley's mother married a man of lesser social status than might have been expected. Soon after their wedding, Vincent was obliged to sell some of his property in order to settle a claim for his breach of promise of marriage from another woman, the widow of a clergyman, who claimed that he had promised to marry her. At the time of his birth, Beardsley's family, which included his sister Mabel who was one year older, were living in Ellen's familial home at 12 Buckingham Road. The number of the house in Buckingham Road was 12, but the numbers were changed, and it is now 31. At the age of seven, Beardsley contracted tuberculosis.
With the loss of Vincent Beardsley's fortune soon after his son's birth, the family settled in London in 1883, where Vincent would work first for the West India & Panama Telegraph Company, then irregularly as a clerk at breweries; they would spend the next 20 years in rented accommodation, battling poverty. Ellen took to presenting herself as the "victim of a mésalliance". In 1884, Aubrey appeared in public as an "infant musical phenomenon", playing at several concerts with his sister. In January 1885, he began to attend Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School, where he spent the next four years. His first poems, drawings, and cartoons appeared in print in Past and Present, the school's magazine. In 1888, he obtained a post in an architect's office and afterward one in the Guardian Life and Fire Insurance Company. In 1891, under the advice of Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, he took up art as a profession. In 1892, he attended the classes at the Westminster School of Art, then under Professor Fred Brown.
