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Day 145: Edmund Dulac

Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; October 22, 1882 – May
25, 1953) was a French-born, British naturalised magazine illustrator,
book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse he studied law but
later turned to the study of art the École des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters. During World War I,
Dulac produced relief books and when after the war the deluxe
children’s book market shrank he turned to magazine illustrations among
other ventures. He designed banknotes during World War II and postage stamps, most notably those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign.