Joseph Finnemore

Joseph Finnemore (1860–1939) was a prolific book and magazine illustrator who worked particularly for the Religious Tract Society.[1] He was also a painter in oils.

He was born in Birmingham in 1860 and educated at the Birmingham School of Art and in Antwerp under Charles Verlat.[1] Following a tour of Europe and the Near East in the early 1880s, he settled in London in 1884.[1]

Of his paintings in oils, his works include The Proclamation of King Edward VII at St. James' Palace January 24, 1901 and On the Lookout, A Stormy Night.[2]

A rare commissioned engraving by Finnemore of the Baltic Exchange dated 1918

He was a member of the Society of Illustrators, the Royal Society of British Artists (from 1893) and Royal Institute (from 1898).[1]

A pencil signature by the artist Joseph Finnemore

Books illustrated by Joseph Finnemore
  • Ainsworth, W. Harrison (c. 1930). Old St. Paul's. London: Collins Clear-Type Press.
  • Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie (1888). The White Man's Foot. London: Hatchards. ISBN 9780665050930.
  • Bee, Dora. The Battle By The Lake. Religious Tract Society.
  • Beer, Alfred (1904). The Heir of Bragwell Hall. London: Religious Tract Society.
  • Bone, Florence (1919). Doctor Ogilvie's Guest. Religious Tract Society.
  • Cule, W. E. (1926). Sir Knight of the Splendid Way. Religious Tract Society.
  • Defoe, Daniel. Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner as Related By Himself. DeWolfe, Fiske & Co. (Also includes illustrations by G.H. Thompson and Archibald Webb.)
  • Ellis, Edward S. The Boy Hunters of Kentucky. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co.
  • Everett-Green, Evelyn (1911). Knights of the Road. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons.
  • Finnemore, John (1915). The Animals' Circus: A Book for Children. London: Gale & Polden.
  • Gilbert, Henry Franklin Belknap (1916). The Book of Pirates. London: George G. Harrap.
  • Gilbert, Henry Franklin Belknap (1902). The Captain of his Soul. London: George Allen.
  • Giberne, Agnes (1896). The Girl at the Dower House and Afterward. London and Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, Limited.
  • Glass, James (1922). Chats over a Pipe: A Tale of Two Brothers (James and William Glass). London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.
  • Henty, G. A. (1895). When London Burned: A story of Restoration times and the Great Fire. London: Blackie and Son.
  • Hodgetts, James Frederick (1902). Kormak the Viking. London: Religious Tract Society.
  • Kelly, Minnie Harding (1920). The Golden City. London: Religious Tract Society.
  • Kingsley, Charles (1925). Westward Ho!. London: Religious Tract Society.
  • Munroe, Kirk (1922). At War with Pontiac or the Totem of the Bear: a Tale of Redcoat and Redskin. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  • Kelly, M. Harding. The Golden City. Pembina, U.S.A.
  • Robinson, Maude (1925). Wedded In Prison. Philadelphia: Swarthmore Press.
  • Stables, William Gordon (1900). Kidnapped by Cannibals. London; Glasgow & Dublin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References
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  1. "Joseph Finnemore, 1860-1939". The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler. University of Glasgow.
  2. "Joseph Finnemore bei artnet". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2006.
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