1. Louis John Rhead was an English-born American artist, illustrator, author and angler who was born in Etruria, Staffordshire, England.
12 Facts About Louis Rhead
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Louis Rhead emigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-four.
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The Rhead family had operated and worked in the Staffordshire Potteries for at least three generations.
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Louis' father George W Rhead worked in the pottery industry and was a highly respected gilder and ceramic artist.
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In 1883 at the age of twenty-four, Louis Rhead was offered a position as Art Director for the US publishing firm of D Appleton in New York City.
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Louis Rhead accepted and emigrated to the US in the fall of 1883.
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Between 1902 and his death in 1926, Louis Rhead illustrated numerous children's books published by Harpers and others.
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Louis Rhead was an avid fly fisher and by his own account started fishing for trout in the US sometime between 1888 and 1890.
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Louis Rhead was a tackle dealer and sold his own line of artificial flies.
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Louis Rhead was one of the most creative, fresh-thinking, and stimulating of American fly-fishing writers, a man of extraordinary gifts.
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Louis Rhead died from a heart attack at his retirement home in Amityville, Long Island.
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About two weeks ago Mr Louis Rhead set out to catch a turtle weighing thirty pounds which had been devastating trout ponds on his place, Seven Oaks.