Dulac, Edmund (1882–1953)

French illustrator who worked in England. He is noted for his finely detailed and richly coloured book illustrations influenced by Persian art, as in his editions of the Arabian Nights 1907 and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám 1909.

Born ‘Edmond’ Dulac in Toulouse, he was educated at Toulouse University, where he studied law. He then studied drawing and painting at Toulouse art school, and in Paris. He illustrated books from 1905, and exhibited portraits at the Paris Salon 1904–05. In 1912 he became ‘Edmund’ Dulac, a naturalized British subject.