Paul Pavelka

Portrait by John Elliott, the English-born cartoonist and illustrator (1859–1925). Elliott worked across newspapers and magazines during the early comic strip era, contributing to the visual vocabulary that shaped sequential art. This portrait captures a subject in period costume—a cap and collared shirt—rendered in Elliott's soft, naturalistic style. The work exemplifies the crossover between portraiture and character illustration common among newspaper artists of the 1910s, when the same practitioners drew comic strips, editorial cartoons, and society portraits for mass circulation dailies.