Edward Eugene Louis Mortelmans (1915 - 2008; London, UK)
Edward Mortelmans is a 20th-century English artist and illustrator. His primary modes of expression are watercolour and black and white line drawings. He education included: Upper Hornsey Road Evening Art Institute; Central Institute of Art and Design; and the Slade School of Fine Art.

Designed posters for London Transport 1948.

He is best known for illustrating some books by Gerald Durrell and some covers for books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Mortelmans was a watercolour artist, who commercially practiced cover artistry and book illustration, mostly for a visual audience of children and young adults. He illustrated the cover for a number of E. R. Burroughs paperback editions for Four Square Books including The Son of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan and Lost on Venus.

He did some magazine work, including cover design for the first American pulp magazine, Argosy. He has also been associated with illustrating several series, like the Twenty Names series of Hodder and Stoughton, How and Why Wonder Books of Corgi Books and the Oxford Graded Readers series of Oxford University Press. He has produced commissioned art for British Railways. Edward Mortelmans' illustrations have been critically acclaimed.