Edmund Dulac was born in Toulouse on 22 October 1882, studied law at university. Too he was a student at the city’s art school, in 1904 he won a scholarship and abandoned his legal studies in favour of the Académie Julian, Paris. But only after three weeks, the confirmedly Anglophile Dulac decamped to England and worked as an illustrator. He immediately joined the London Sketch Club. Dulac made his name in 1905 with a Dent edition of the novels of the Brontë sisters. From 1907, he was employed by Hodder & Stoughton to produce a series of gift books that were accompanied by annual exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries (1907-15). In this period, Dulac was the only serious rival to Arthur Rackham (whom i have bloged here a few times, mainly his alice in wonderland art)in the genre.
After the First World War, Dulac turned to a variety of media and genre. He painted portraits, designed for the home and the theatre, designed medals, stamps, and also composed music. The appeal of such eclectic experimentation marked him out as an obvious member of the circle of the artists Ricketts and Shannon, whom he had met through the millionaire collector Sir Edmund Davis. Like many of Dulac’s friends and acquaintances, all three became the subject of his caricatures. Dulac died on 25 May 1953.
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