[1] In the middle of the 19th century, Jackson's prints for The Art Union gave him a considerable reputation, along with Charles Knight's Shakespeare and other standard books.

On the death of Herbert Ingram in 1860, Jackson was appointed art editor of the Illustrated London News, a post he held for thirty years.

[1][3] Jackson died in December 1903 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

[1][2] Amongst his apprentices was Edmund Morison Wimperis, who became a notable watercolour landscape painter.

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