Collection: William Horton

William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907). Some starry names were in his orbit, including the writers Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats. In 1896 he launched The Savoy, a culture magazine that counted Aubrey Beardsley as art editor and for which Horton was a frequent contributor. His apparent simplicity of his black and white images seem to mask more than they reveal - fitting, no doubt, for a member of the Golden Dawn occult society.