{"title":"Johnson, Edward Killingworth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdward Killingworth Johnson RWS (1825-1896)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a British wood-engraver, illustrator, and watercolour painter. He is known for creating the first illustrations of Rider Haggard's 1887 novel She.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohnson was born in Bow, London, on 30 May 1825 to an Irish merchant, Richard Johnson, and his wife Mary Meadows. He was trained as an apprentice to the wood-engraver John Orrin Smith from 1839, and then to Smith's business partner William James Linton. He then worked as a wood engraver for several years. He studied drawing at the Langham Life School and started painting professionally c.1863. In the 1860s he contributed regularly to the illustrated periodicals The Illustrated London News and from 1869, The Graphic. He became a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1876; he exhibited his works there, at the Royal Academy, the American Society of Painters in Water Colour, the Philadelphia Exhibition and the Paris Universal Exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohnson married Hannah Reynolds in November 1871. They moved out of London to his family home in Baker's Farm, Essex, and had three children. His uncles were the illustrator and watercolourist John Masey Wright and the marine painter James Meadows. 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