__NOTOC__ The London Sketch Club is a

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for artists working in the field of commercial graphic art, mainly for newspapers, periodicals, and books. Cecil Aldin - London Sketch Club invite

History

The club was founded in 1898 by a breakaway group of members from the Langham Sketching Club, following a disagreement over whether to have hot or cold suppers after an evening's drawing. The founder members were Dudley Hardy, Phil May, Cecil Aldin, Walter Churcher, and Tom Browne.

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was its first president. A joint exhibition with the Langham Sketching Club was held at the

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in 1976. For a while in the late 1970s, the

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held its monthly meetings at the Sketch Club."Page 45’s Bryan Talbot Interview,"
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Clubhouse

The club relocated in 1903 from its original location to premises in Wells Street, off Oxford Street. In 1957, the club moved to 7 Dilke Street in Chelsea.

Members

* Salomon van Abbé * Cecil Aldin * H. M. Bateman *

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* Edmund Dulac * Dudley Hardy * John Hassall (illustrator) * Frederick Hamilton Jackson *

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Phil May (caricaturist) Philip William May (22 April 1864 – 5 August 1903) was an England, English caricaturist who, with his vigorous economy of line, played an important role in moving away from Victorian styles of illustration towards the creation of the modern hu ...

* Christopher Nevinson *

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* James Pryde *

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* Lance Thackeray

References

Bibliography

* * The Pall Mall Gazette 2 April 1898

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