Arthur Comfort

Arthur Comfort (11 November 1864 – 1935) was a British wood-engraver at The Graphic in London and art teacher in Halifax.

Comfort was born in London on 11 November 1864, where he attended the Graphic School of Wood Engraving, and afterwards worked as an engraver for almost 15 years at The Graphic, a national illustrated journal founded in 1869 by William Luson Thomas and his brother Lewis Samuel Thomas.

During that time, he achieved some renown for his watercolours, especially of flowers, and his work was exhibited in Brussels and at the Royal Academy in London.

[1] He became the chairman of the international Society of Wood Engravers, but, with the development of half-tone and screen blocks for illustrations, wood-engraving became obsolete, and he left the journal and moved north.

He joined the Halifax Art Society, and developed some skill with pen and ink sketches, and mezzotints.