Without a doubt, my favourite ink illustrator, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley represented all of the best and the worst of the Victorian society in his sartorialist illustrations. Created covers for books, Opera catalogues and contributed with all the major magazines and newspapers of the time, his style morphed with time into a more ellaborate and intricate line, becoming almost a preview of the Rococo era. Like every legend he had a tragic ending, dying of Tuberculosis at the early age of twenty five. He now rests in his detailed settings and ornate paradises that usually where the focal point in his work. Aubrey, you may have died young, but your art lives forever!
