Tom Poultonartist • painter • watercolourist • draughtsmanWimbledon (Groot-Brittannië) 1897-1963 Londen

The talented British artist and illustrator Tom Poulton was born in Wimbledon and trained from 1914 at the renowned Slade School of Fine Art in London. Throughout his life, he worked as a medical illustrator for publications including the British Journal of Surgery, created book illustrations for Nonesuch Press, and briefly worked as a cartographer for the British Ministry of Defence. Only after his death in 1963 was it discovered that he had secretly produced a large number of erotic sketches and drawings. His fascination with this subject likely stemmed from his encounter with the Kama Sutra during a stay in India during World War I. Many of his erotic drawings were commissioned by an exclusive group of collectors.