Henry Brevoort Eddy (1872-1935)
of the Brevoort Farm, Rye; Illustrator of New York City
He was born in New York and was educated at St. Paul's School before graduating from Harvard where he was President of the Harvard Lampoon. Returning to New York, despite having had no formal art training, he worked and made a name for himself as an illustrator for several newspapers and books - "an artist of perception and adaptation." His first of many posters was created for the New York Ledger in 1895, and as the art editor for Chips, he designed a series of posters that attracted considerable attention. However even by 1896 he was aware that illustrators would be replaced by photographers, but he said, "one picture by a real artist can tell all. Its succinctness gives it force and beauty." He married Marguerite Baré of Montreal and died without children just four months after his wife at the Brevoort Farm, Rye.
