London Sketch Club

The London Sketch Club is a private members' club for artists working in the field of commercial graphic art, mainly for newspapers, periodicals, and books.

History
The club was founded in 1898 by a breakaway group of members from the Langham Sketching Club, following a disagreement over whether to have hot or cold suppers after an evening's drawing. The founding members were Dudley Hardy, Phil May, Cecil Aldin, Walter Churcher, and Tom Browne. George Charles Haité was its first president.

A joint exhibition with the Langham Sketching Club was held at the Mall Galleries in 1976.

For a while in the late 1970s, the Society of Strip Illustration held its monthly meetings at the Sketch Club.

Clubhouse
The club relocated in 1903 from its original location to premises in Wells Street, off Oxford Street. In 1957, the club moved to 7 Dilke Street in Chelsea.

Members

 * Salomon van Abbé
 * Cecil Aldin
 * H. M. Bateman
 * James Bateman (artist)
 * Arnold Beauvais
 * Tom Browne (illustrator)
 * Fred Buchanan
 * René Bull
 * Terence Cuneo
 * George Charles Haité
 * Edmund Dulac
 * Dudley Hardy
 * John Hassall (illustrator)
 * Frederick Hamilton Jackson
 * David Langdon
 * Alfred Leete
 * Horatio Joseph Lucas
 * Phil May (caricaturist)
 * Christopher Nevinson
 * George Parlby
 * Bertram Prance
 * James Pryde
 * Charles Robinson (illustrator)
 * W. Heath Robinson
 * Gyrth Russell
 * Lance Thackeray