When he died in 1868, his obituary in The Art Journal did not appear until three months after his death, and a posthumous sale of his sketches at Christie's in 1882 was cancelled for lack of buyers. However, he is considered a founder of the school of British cartoon satirists represented by John Leech, John Tenniel, and his son Richard Doyle, which established the style made famous by Punch magazine. The British Museum has over 900 of his drawings in its collections. Death and legacy He died at Maida Hill, 2 January 1868, and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. His sons included the illustrator James William Edmund Doyle (1822–1892); the painter, illustrator and cartoonist Richard Doyle (1824–1883); Henry Edward Doyle, (1827–1892) who became director of the National Gallery of Ireland; and the painter Charles Altamont Doyle (1832–1893), through whom he was a grandfather of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the novelist and creator of Sherlock Holmes. Gallery References Further reading G. M. Trevelyan, The Seven Years of William IV. A Reign Cartooned by John Doyle (London: The Avalon Press, 1952). External links portrait in chalk University of Nottingham Digital Gallery includes John Doyle cartoons Cartoons by John Doyle at the British Cartoon Archive 1797 births 1868 deaths Irish illustrators 19th-century Irish painters Irish male painters Irish editorial cartoonists Artists from Dublin (city) Burials at West Norwood Cemetery John 19th-century Irish male artists