Biography:

Sir John Tenniel was a cartoonist and illustrator, born in London, England, in 1820. Tenniel was educated at the Royal Academy and at the Clipstone Street Life Academy, in London. He became a cartoonist for the illustrated, satirical magazine, Punch, or the London Charivari, in 1850, became a junior partner with John Leech in 1861, and succeeded Leech as chief cartoonist in 1864. Punch published more than 2,500 of his cartoons between 1851 and 1901, when he retired. Tenniel was also a prolific and notable illustrator, best known for his illustrations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alive Found There (1872). Tenniel was knighted in 1893 upon the recommendation of William Gladstone, a favorite subject of Tenniel’s cartoons. Tenniel died in London, in1914, just a few days short of his ninety-fourth birthday.