Pyle, Howard

Pyle, Howard( 1853–1911),
illustrator, writer, and painter, established a great reputation in the last decades of the 19th century for his washes, colored drawings, and line drawings of American colonial life, buccaneers, and medieval legendry. His books for children, with his own illustrations, include The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883), Men of Iron (1892), and Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates (1921).