William T. Warrener William T. Warrener William Tom Warrener (18611934) was an English painter of portraits, landscapes and figurative subjects. He is best known for being the subject of his friend Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's painting "L'Anglais au Moulin Rouge" (The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge) (1892). He also appears in the background of "Jane Avril dansant" (1892). Born in Lincoln, England, to a coal merchant and magistrate, Warrener studied at the Lincoln School of Art, where he was awarded the Mayor of Lincoln's Gold Medal, and a Queen's Prize in the National Art Examinations at South Kensington, before studying at the Slade School
Alfred Choubrac poster artist of his time. His most famous poster is that of "Au Joyeux Moulin Rouge", based on the popular Parisian nightclub Moulin Rouge. The 1880s and 1890s were an intermediary period in the development of the poster in which its primary political function shifted to a primarily promotional one as advertising in the emerging consumer economy. In April 1891, under orders from the Minister of the Interior, the prefect of Paris, Henri-Auguste Lozé, seized and destroyed hundreds of posters considered to a violation of public decency. Many artists and their printers were charged. Several of Choubrac’s posters were prohibited