Background
Rhead, Louis John was born in 1857 in Etruria, England. Son of George Woolliscroft and Fanny Moreton (Colley) Rhead.
Rhead, Louis John was born in 1857 in Etruria, England. Son of George Woolliscroft and Fanny Moreton (Colley) Rhead.
National scholar Art Training School, South Kensington, London.
Came to the United States, 1883, to be art manager for Doctorate. Appleton & Company Painter in oil and water colors, exhibiting in American and European galleries. Gold medal, Boston, 1895, for artistic posters. Gold medal, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904.
Participant time engaged in illustrating Louis Rhead series of juvenile classics (Swiss Family, Guilliver, Andersen, Grimm, et cetera).
Other time newspaper and magazine writing on, and making, hand-made lures and flies for game fishing. Author: Book of Fish and Fishing, 1908.
American Trout Stream Insects, 1916. Fisherman’s Lures, 1920.
Home: Amityville, New New York
Married Catharine Anne Bogart Yates, 1884.