London Sketch Club

The London Sketch Club is a private members' club for artists working in the field of commercial graphic art, mainly for newspapers, periodicals, and books.

The club was founded in 1898 by a breakaway group of members from the Langham Sketching Club, following a disagreement over whether to have hot or cold suppers after an evening's drawing.

The founding members were Dudley Hardy, Phil May, Cecil Aldin, Walter Churcher, and Tom Browne.

A joint exhibition with the Langham Sketching Club was held at the Mall Galleries in 1976.

[1] For a while in the late 1970s, the Society of Strip Illustration held its monthly meetings at the Sketch Club.

1900 invitation to one of the regular "smoking" evenings at the club.