Howard Pyle
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Howard Pyle (1853–1911) was an American illustrator and author, born in Wilmington, Delaware. He made his name with drawings for Harper’s magazines, and then with books he both wrote and illustrated, beginning with The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883). His other books include Otto of the Silver Hand (1888), Men of Iron (1891) and a four-volume retelling of the Arthurian legends, starting with The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903). His paintings of buccaneers did much to fix the popular image of pirates. Pyle was also an influential teacher, first at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and then at his own school in Wilmington and at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where his students included N. C. Wyeth and Jessie Willcox Smith; they came to be known as the Brandywine School. He died in Florence, Italy, in 1911.
