Aubrey Beardsley. Artist: Frederick H. Evans (British, London 1853-1943 London). Dimensions: 13.6 x 9.7 cm (5 3/8 x 3 13/16 in.); 12.3 x 9.5 cm (4 13/16 x 3 3/4 in.). Date: ca. 1894.A major figure in British Pictorialism and a driving force of its influential society The Linked Ring, Frederick Evans is best known for his moving interpretations of medieval cathedrals rendered with unmatched subtlety in platinum prints. Until 1898, Evans owned a bookshop in London where, according to George Bernard Shaw, he was the ideal bookseller, chatting his customers into buying what he thought was right for them. In 1889, Evans befriended the seventeen-year-old Aubrey Beardsley, a clerk in an insurance company who, too poor to make purchases, browsed in the bookshop during lunch hours. Eventually, Evans recommended Beardsley to the publisher John M. Dent as the illustrator for a new edition of Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur." It was to be Beardsley's first commission and the beginning of his me