John Austen (illustrator)

His early works, including an illustrated Hamlet were Beardsleyesque in style.

Books Austen illustrated in this manner include Daphnis and Chloe and a printed version of As You Like it.

He was also involved in advertising, producing adverts, several posters & numerous dust jacket designs.

He was a friend of Alan Odle and Harry Clarke and exhibited with them at the St George's Gallery in 1925.

The novelist Dorothy Richardson, wrote about him in John Austen and the Inseparables (London: William Jackson, 1930).