Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle was born in 1853 in Wilmington, Delaware, into a Quaker family. He loved books and pictures as a child and studied art at a small school in Philadelphia. In the 1870s he moved to New York and began selling illustrations and stories to magazines such as Harper's Weekly and Scribner's. He returned to Wilmington, where he lived and worked for most of his life. In 1883 he published The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, which he wrote and illustrated in a style imitating old woodcuts. It was followed by Otto of the Silver Hand, Men of Iron and four books retelling the legends of King Arthur, beginning with The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903). He also wrote and illustrated stories of pirates that shaped the popular image of pirates. Pyle taught illustration at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and then at his own school in Wilmington, where his students included N. C. Wyeth and Jessie Willcox Smith. In 1910 he went to Italy to study mural painting and died in Florence in 1911.

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