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A combat artist and illustrator, Frank Vizetelly was born in London, England and studied in Boulogne, France. He founded the magazine "Le Monde Illustre" in Europe and having completed the pictorial reporting of Garibaldi's campaign in Sicily and Italy was sent to America in 1861 by the "Illustrated London News" to cover the Civil War.
In 1862, he began his war illustrations. Witnessing the first Bull Run, he did a sketch that was published of the fleeing Union troops, which so incensed (showing 500 of 1159 characters). |
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Frank Vizetelly is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Civil War Art
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