July 2024
The Sambourne House
18 Stafford Terrace was the home of the Punch illustrator Edward Linley Sambourne (1844–1910) and his wife Marion.
The Sambourne House is one of many similar townhouses that line both sides of the street
The house is an excellent example of middle-class Aestheticism and a lot of eclecticism. Throughout are decorative Sunflower motifs in the stained glass windows, William Morris wallpapers, a collection of blue-and-white Chinese import porcelain, and a lot of other items that caught the eye of Sambourne.
A glimpse of the unique wall treatments
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Sambourne’s studio
Sambourne used a huge library of photographic images to give accuracy to his work.
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Sambourne was most famous for being a draughtsman for the satirical magazine Punch for more than forty years and rising to the position of “First Cartoonist” in his final decade. He was also a great-grandfather of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, who was the husband of Princess Margaret.
The house is filled with his work, but most behind glass and very hard to photograph due to the lighting in the house.
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Details of the above work framed in gold.
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The house is eclectic to say the least but Sambourne’s work is a delight to behold.
