Edward Linley Sambourne

Edward Linley Sambourne was born in the family home at 15 Lloyd Square in Pentonville, London 4 January 1844.

In his spare time Sambourne continued to draw caricatures and study the great graphic artists such as William Hogarth and Albrecht Dürer.

Lemon was sufficiently impressed by the sketch that he encouraged Sambourne to take art lessons and consult the engraver Joseph Swain about drawing on wood.

While his work for Punch occupied most of his energy, it was not Sambourne's only source of income, as he would often accept commissions for individuals, books, magazines and advertisements.

These include: Book illustrations Diploma Invitations Advertisements Covers Illustrations Examples from his series of caricatures in Punch 1881–82, "Punch's Fancy Portraits": More of Sambourne's caricatures from this series can be seen in the articles for William Harrison Ainsworth, Emma Albani, Matthew Arnold, Lord Charles Beresford, William Black, George Granville Bradley, Robert Browning, Hugh Childers, Lord Randolph Churchill, Henry Drummond Wolff, Henry Fawcett, James Anthony Froude, George Joachim Goschen, Charles Gounod, John Holker, Henry Labouchère, Henry Parry Liddon, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Henry Edward Manning, Oscar Wilde, Ouida, James Payn, George Augustus Henry Sala, Eyre Massey Shaw, Arthur Sullivan, William James Erasmus Wilson, and Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley See also: Phylloxera, Cecil Rhodes.

She was the eldest daughter of the nine children of Spencer Herapath, a successful stockbroker, and his wife Mary Ann Walker.

Due to the large number of photographs taken of himself posing as a model for drawings, Boston-based journalist Susan Clare Zalkind[4] has suggested that her great-great-great-grandfather, Sambourne, is the "grandfather of the selfie.