Lydon, A. F.

About the artist

Name

Lydon, A. F.

Biography

Alexander Francis Lydon was a watercolour artist, illustrator and engraver best known for his natural history studies and landscapes.

Born in Newbridge, Ireland in 1836, his family were travellers, with siblings born in the West Indies, and Canada before the family settled in England.

Lydon worked for the printer Benjamin Fawcett, to whom he was apprenticed at an early age. His work was particularly associated with the publisher Groombridge and Sons in the 1860s and 1870s for whom he illustrated dozens of books and works ranging from natural history books to illustrating the classics.

He married Catherine Fitzgerald in York in 1859 and lived in Great Driffield, Yorkshire for many years before moving to London in the 1880’s.

He died in North Ealing, Middlesex on 20 March 1917 and was survived by his wife and seven children, two of whom went on to become engravers.

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