Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926, American illustrator, etcher, lithographer, and author, b. Philadelphia, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Much of his time was spent in Europe, particularly in London, where he was greatly influenced by Whistler. His subjects are chiefly landscapes and architectural views, and his art is distinguished for its simplicity, technical perfection, and illustrative quality. He is represented by etchings, drawings, and lithographs in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; and Brooklyn Museum, N.Y. Pennell was a member (1909) of the National Academy of Design and of numerous European societies and was a lecturer on illustration at the Slade School of Art, London, and the Royal College of Art, South Kensington. His publications include Pen Drawings and Pen Draughtsmen (1889), Modern Illustration (1895), Lithographs of New York (1905), Etchers and Etching (1919), Adventures of an Illustrator (1925), and, with Elizabeth R. Pennell, his wife, a biography of James McNeill Whistler (1908).

Elizabeth Robins Pennell (February 21, 1855 - February 7, 1936) was an American author. She was the wife of American artist and fellow author Joseph Pennell, whom she married in June 1884. He provided the illustrations for many of her books. She, with her husband, was a friend and correspondent of James McNeill Whistler. She wrote a lengthy biography of Whistler in collaboration with her husband, as well as biographical studies of Charles Godfrey Leland, who was her uncle, Mary Wollstonecraft, and, after his death, her husband. Other works include travelogues and personal memoirs. She was also a contributor of art and food criticism to periodicals including the Daily Chronicle and the Pall Mall Gazette. Pennell often made her contributions under the nom de plume "N. N.. She died in New York City in February of 1936.

Bibliography

• Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (1884)
• Our Journey to the Hebrides (With Joseph Pennell) (1889)
• The Stream of Pleasure: A Narrative of a Journey on the Thames from Oxford to London (With Joseph Pennell) (1891)
• To Gipsyland (1893)
• The Feasts of Autolycus: the Diary of a Greedy Woman (1896)
• Charles Godfrey Leland: a Biography (1906)
• The Life of James McNeill Whistler (With Joseph Pennell) (1908)
• Our Philadelphia (1914)
• Our House and the People in It (1910)
• Nights: Rome & Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties, London & Paris in the Fighting Nineties (1916)
• The Lovers (1917)
• The Whistler Journal (1921)
• The Art of Whistler (1928)
• The Life and Letters of Joseph Pennell (1929)
• Whistler the Friend (1930)
• (anthologized in) American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes, ed. Molly O'Neill (Library of America, 2007) ISBN 1598530054

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External links

• Biographical Sketch of Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell
• Works by Elizabeth Robins Pennell at the Internet Archive