Dulac was an illustrator, caricaturist, decorator, portrait and
landscape painter. He was born at Toulouse on 22nd October 1882 and was
educated at the University of Toulouse. He then studied at Toulouse Art
School for three years and at the Académie Julian in Paris for
three weeks. He exhibited portraits at the Paris Salon 1904-05 and then
mainly in London, and many of his works can be seen today in numerous
public collections. He illustrated many books, including The Arabian Nights (1907), The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1909), Hans
Andersen's Snow Queen and Other Tales
(1912), Edmund Dulac's Fairybook (1916),
and Treasure Island (1927).
