See also:HOWARD See also:PYLE (1853– )
, See also:American artist and writer,
was See also:born at See also:Wilmington, See also:Delaware, on the 5th of See also:March 1853
.
He was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of the See also:Art Students' See also:League, New See also:York, and first attracted See also:attention by his See also:line drawings after the manner of Albrecht Diirer
.
His brilliant See also:work as an illustrator made him one of the foremost of American artists, his drawings to illustrate American colonial See also:life, particularly in New See also:England and New See also:Amsterdam, being especially noteworthy; and he published a number of books of fiction, written and illustrated by himself
.
He also became prominent in decorative See also:painting, his See also:works including " The See also:Battle of See also:Nashville " for the capitol at St See also:Paul, See also:Minnesota, and " The Landing of See also:Carteret " for the See also:Essex See also:county See also:court See also:house, See also:Newark, New See also:Jersey
.
At his See also:home in Wilmington, Delaware, he established a school of art, instruction being gratuitous, and many successful American illustrators were educated there
.
In 1907 See also:Howard See also:Pyle was elected a member of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design
.
End of Article: