Mason Jackson

Mason Jackson (25 May 1819 – 28 December 1903) was a British wood-engraver.

Life

Jackson was born at Ovingham, Northumberland in 1819, and was trained as a wood-engraver by his brother, John Jackson, the author of a history of this art.

In the middle of the 19th century his prints for The Art Union gave him a considerable reputation, along with Knight’s Shakespeare and other standard books. On the death of Herbert Ingram in 1860 he was appointed art editor of the Illustrated London News, a post he held for thirty years. He wrote a history of the rise and progress of illustrated journalism.

Jackson died in December 1903 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

Amongst his apprentices was Edmund Morison Wimperis, who became a notable watercolour landscape painter.