These pages are very much under construction. For the moment, here are some photographs of some of the titles that Lionel Edwards illustrated (and in some cases, wrote.)
Born at Clifton in 1878, Lionel Edwards was the son of a Chester Doctor. He studied under A. S. Cope at South Kensington, Heatherleys and Frank Calderon. A keen hunting man, he spent his life combining hunting and painting and most of his paintings were worked from sketches made on the spot. During the First World War he worked in the army Remount Service.
He illustrated for many periodicals including The London News, The Graphic, The Sphere, The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, Country Life etc. and made a living painting sporting pictures. Many prints were produced after his paintings, the early ones were of a caricature type, but as time progressed his work became more traditional, In the 1920’s he painted a series of pictures of named hunts entitled ‘Shires & Provinces’, which were produced as limited edition prints. Watercolour was his favourite medium, though he used oils more frequently in later life. After Munnings he was probably the most important sporting artist of the hunting field of the first half of the twentieth century. Lionel Edwards also illustrated more than 100 books and is described by Stella Walker in her book ‘British Sporting art in the twentieth Century’ as the “The grand old man of sporting art”. His career spanned more than six decades.
Cover illustrations
Internal Illustrations