Joseph Finnemore

Joseph Finnemore (1860-1939) was born in Birmingham in 1860 and educated at the Birmingham School of Art and in Antwerp under Michel Marie Charles Verlat.^[1] Following a tour of Europe and the Near East in the early 1880, he settled in London in 1884.^[1] He was a prolific book and magazine illustrator, who worked particularly for the Religious Tract Society.^[1]

He was also a painter in oils whose works include The Proclamation of King Edward VII at St. James' Palace January 24, 1901 and On the Lookout, A Stormy Night.^[2]

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

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.
• 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.
• 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 Scribners.
• 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.
• Stevens, William. The Slave in History: His Sorrows and his Emancipation. London: Religious Tract Society.
• Vredenburg, Edric, ed. (18--?). Gems from Walter Scott's Poems. London: Raphael Tuck & Sons. Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Shakespeare, William (1897). Vredenburg, E., ed. The Merry Wives of Windsor. London: Tuck & Sons.
• Walshe, E. H. Kingston's Revenge: A Story of Bravery and Single-hearted Endeavour. London: Religious Tract Society.
• Wood, Mrs Henry (19--?). Roland Yorke. London: Collins' Clear-Type Press. Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Wyss, Johann David (1897). The Swiss Family Robinson, A New Version by E. A. Brayley Hodgetts. London.

References

1. "Joseph Finnemore, 1860-1939". The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler. University of Glasgow.
2. http://www.artnet.de/artist/569305/joseph-finnemore.html

External links

• Works by Joseph Finnemore at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Joseph Finnemore at Internet Archive