Darley, FELIX OCTAVIUS CARR

Darley, FELIX OCTAVIUS CARR, an American artist, was born at Philadelphia, June 23, 1822. He early gave himself to drawing with such success as to encourage him to devote himself exclusively to art, especially in the form of book illustration. His earliest important work was a series of drawings for the Library of Humorous American Works, after producing which he went to New York (1848), where his outline drawings to Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle soon spread wide his reputation. Later works, not less popular, are his illustrations of Judd's Margaret, and to Cooper's, Dickens's, and Simms's novels. In 1868, after some years' residence in Europe, he published Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil. He died 26th March 1888.