Ebenezer Landells

Ebenezer Landells (Newcastle 13 April 1808 – 1 October 1860 London) was a British wood-engraver, illustrator, and magazine proprietor.

After attempting a short-lived fashion journal, Cosmorama, he joined with the journalist Henry Mayhew and the printer William Last to found Punch in 1841.

Herbert Ingram consulted Landells about launching his weekly Illustrated London News in 1842: after a commission to sketch Queen Victoria's first visit to Scotland that year, Landells became the paper's first artistic correspondent and continued to supply prints for the newspaper until his death.

[2]He died at Victoria Grove, West Brompton, in south-west London on 1 October 1860[3] and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.

[3] His son, Robert Thomas Landells, was also an illustrator, and married the daughter of composer George Rodwell.