Lewis Baumer

Who was Lewis Baumer?

Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer was an English caricaturist who worked for more than fifty years for the British magazine Punch.

Baumer was born at St John's Wood, London, England, and had studied at the St John's Wood Art School under A. A. Calderon, at the Royal Academy of Arts, and at the Royal College of Art. His first drawings appeared in the Pall Mall magazine in 1893; in 1897, his first cartoon in Punch appeared. In 1921, he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.

Books illustrated by Lewis Baumer include:

Jumbles – Lewis Baumer

Elsie’s Magician – Fred Whishaw

The Three Witches – Mrs Molesworth

My Pretty and Her Little Brother “Too” and Other Stories – Mrs Molesworth

The Story of The Treasure Seekers – E. Nesbit

Arms and The Woman: A Romance – Harold MacGrath

Did You Ever? Verses and Pictures – Lewis Baumer

Mrs Pritchard’s School – L. T. Meade

Hermy: The Story of a Little Girl – Mrs Molesworth

Hoodie – Mrs Molesworth

The Boys and I: A Child’s Story For Children – Mrs Molesworth