What is Aubrey Beardsley?
[[File:Aubrey Beardsley ca. 1895.jpg|thumb|right|Aubrey Beardsley]] [[Image:Beardsley-peacockskirt.PNG|thumb|220px|Beardsley drawing for ''Salome'']] '''Aubrey Beardsley''' (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was a [[England|English]] [[illustrator]].<ref name= ha>{{Cite web |url=http://www.all-art.org/symbolism/Beardsley1.html |title=History of Art: Aubrey Beardsley |work=all-art.org |accessdate=27 March 2010 |archive-date=24 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100224081814/http://www.all-art.org/symbolism/Beardsley1.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is best known for his drawings for [[Oscar Wilde]]'s [[Salome]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/beardsley/aubrey/ |title=Aubrey Beardsley: free web books, online |work=ebooks.adelaide.edu.au |accessdate=27 March 2010 |archive-date=8 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100408201148/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/beardsley/aubrey/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Beardsley is one of the famous people who appears on the cover of [[The Beatles]], [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]] album. ==Early life== Beardsley was born in [[Brighton]] where his mother taught him to be interested in books and music.<ref name=ha/> He was very good at music and drawing by the age of ten, but he was already sick with [[tuberculosis]]. After leaving school he worked as a [[wikt:clerk|clerk]] for an [[insurance]] company in [[London]]. He had to stop working at the end of 1889 because of his illness.<ref name=ha/> He tried writing, but in 1891 he started to work full-time as an artist. ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Beardsley, Aubrey}} [[Category:1872 births]] [[Category:1898 deaths]] [[Category:English artists]] [[Category:People from Sussex]] [[Category:British illustrators]]