Lewis Baumer, born in 1870 in London, in his later teens he studied at St. John's Wood Art School and the Royal College of Art, died in 1963, birtish illustrator
Baumer quickly found favour as an illustrator with several magazines, his first commission was for the Pall Mall magazine in 1893 and soon his pen and ink illustrations also began to appear in others such as the Bystander and the Sketch. He also had some early success with children's book, including his own story Jumbles in 1897. His longest collaboration was with Punch. In his cartoon work Baumer was essentially a social humorist.