Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle was an American illustrator, painter and author, mainly of books for young people. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. From 1894 he taught illustration at the Drexel Institute, and his students included Maxfield Parrish, Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, which he wrote and illustrated, was first printed in 1883.