Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Felix Octavius Carr "FOC" Darley (born June 23, 1822 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States of America , † March 27, 1888 in Claymont , Delaware , United States of America) was an American illustrator whose focus is on illustration literary Works was.
Life
Felix Octavius Carr Darley was born on July 23, 1822 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a self-taught artist, as which he initially made various illustrations for a Philadelphia-based publisher where he was employed. So he processed a wide range of assignments early on and consequently mastered a large number of subjects. When Darley moved to New York , he improved in the number of publications that used his illustrations. Darley's pictures appeared in Harper's Weekly and in books by various publishers. Darley made as many as five hundred drawings for Benson John Lossing's History of the United States . Darley also illustrated an edition of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow with his lithographs . Scenes from the lives of Native Americans are also among Darley's works from this creative phase. On January 31, 1843, Darley signed a contract with Edgar Allan Poe for illustrations for his planned literary magazine The Stylus . The contract, which ran until July 1, 1844, required Darley to do at least three and no more than five illustrations a month. According to the contract, these should be made on wood or paper. Darley would have made $ 7 USD for each illustration. However, The Stylus was never produced. But Darley made the illustrations for the last volume of Poe's The Gold Beetle . In 1848 Darley created the drawings for the first fully illustrated edition of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle , the short story of a farmer who fell into a magical sleep during the colonial days and only woke up after the War of Independence . This edition was printed and published by the American Art Union . In the same year Darley illustrated an edition of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, also from Irving's pen . . An illustrated edition of Irving's Wolfert's Roost followed in 1855 . In 1868 Darley published his own book with drawings from his European trip: Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil . In 1851 he became an honorary member of the National Academy of Design . A year later he was raised to the status of a full member. Darley died at his Claymont, Delaware home on March 27, 1888, at the age of 65. However, he was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge , Massachusetts . Darley's Victorian Mansion in Claymont is now known as the Darley House and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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The swing and panache of Darley's style, his skills and versatility, as well as the above-average performance of his many works make Darley one of the most important American illustrators at all. The majority of his extremely extensive work consists of book illustrations of works by well-known English-speaking authors - above all William Shakespeare . Of particular note among the many authors whose work Darley illustrated is Washington Irving, who penned the first short stories and narratives in the history of the United States. Darley illustrated The Legend of Sleepy Hollow , Rip Van Winkle and The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent , from Irving's pen . Darley produced around 350 illustrations for James Fenimore Cooper during his career . These illustrations of Cooper's novels were published between 1859 and 1861 as part of special editions of the books. Other authors whose work Darley illustrated included Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Mapes Dodge , Charles Dickens , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Donald Grant Mitchell , George Lippard , Clement Clarke Moore , Nathaniel Parker Willis , Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Francis Parkman . But Darley's work includes not only lithographs, drawings, engravings and etchings , but also paintings with watercolors . These paintings usually showed scenes from the fledgling American history . But Darley also illustrated the history of his country in the form of drawings and prints. His vignettes for banknotes should also be mentioned.
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| SURNAME | Darley, Felix Octavius Carr |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Darley, FOC (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States of America |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1888 |
| Place of death | Claymont , Delaware , United States of America |