Leslie Ward, 'Spy'

Jean de Paleologu, ('PAL').

11 November 1889

Watercolour

Vanity Fair.

Source: © National Portrait Gallery London, by kind permission

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"PAL" or "Pal" was the signature of Rumanian poster-artist and caricaturist Jean de Paleologu, who specialized in humorous portraits of music-hall entertainers, and created advertising posters for bicycles that featured beautiful women. Born in Bucharest in 1855, he trained in England, but returned to his homeland to attend a military academy. He took up residence in Paris, but left for the United States in 1900, where he worked in the new film industry. He died in Miami Beach on 24 November 1942. Philip V. Allingham.