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Godefroy Durand

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Children's Christmas Dinner at Sea (1889)

Godefroy Durand (born 1832 in Dusseldorf,died 1896 in Paris) was a draughtsman of French heritage and a well known wood engraver whose prolific works appeared in The Graphic over many years. He worked for L'Univers Illustré, and in the 1870s for The Graphic. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists in 1873.

References

  • Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Wood Engravers (1985), p. 78.
  • William Whitla, Victorian Literature: An Anthology (2014), p. 147.