Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Stephens, Henry Louis

STEPHENS, Henry Louis, book-illustrator, b. in Philadelphia, 11 Feb., 1824; d. in Bayonne, N.J., 13 Dec., 1882. About 1859 he went to New York under an engagement with Frank Leslie, and after a year or so transferred his services to Harper Brothers. Mr. Stephens was a prolific artist, and accomplished a great amount of work for book and magazine illustration. He was well known as a caricaturist, excelling especially in the humorous delineation of animals, and drew cartoons and sketches for "Vanity Fair" (1859-63), "Mrs. Grundy" (1868), "Punchinello" (1870). and other periodicals. He gave some attention also to painting in water-colors, but rarely exhibited his works.