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Nationality
  
United States

Awards
  
National Academy

Known for
  
Painting, illustration

William Henry Drake (painter)

Born
  
1856
New York

Died
  
1926, Los Angeles, California, United States

Award
  
National Academy Museum and School

Books
  
The Blind Lark, and Scarlet Stockings

William Henry Drake (4 June 1856 – 1926) born in New-York, was an American painter and illustrator known for his illustrations of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.

Biography

William Henry Drake studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Henri Lucien Doucet.

Back from Europe, he studied at the Cincinnati School of Design, and would often go to the zoo where he could draw the animals, he was then employed by the Museum of Natural History. He continued to study at the Art Students League of New York. In 1878 he worked as a free lance pen and ink artist for such periodicals as Century or Harper’s with animal studies, still lifes and landscapes.

Having developed skills in drawing wild animals, particularly wild cats, in 1894 , he received commissions to illustrate books, including The Jungle Books, by Kipling.
In 1902 he was made an associate member of the National Academy of Design. William Henry Drake moved to California in 1920.

References

William Henry Drake (painter) Wikipedia


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