Louis John Rhead was an English-born American artist, illustrator, author and angler, who grew up in Etruria, Staffordshire, England.
The Rhead family had operated and worked in the Staffordshire Potteries for at least three generations. Louis’s father taught art and design in Staffordshire schools, and also founded the Fenton School of Art. Louis and all his siblings attended their father’s art classes and worked in the potteries as children. Because Louis demonstrated exceptional talent, when he was thirteen, his father sent him to study in Paris. In 1879, Rhead gained a scholarship at the National Art Training School in London. This was to be the start of his artistic career proper.
At the age of twenty-four, the young man emigrated to the United States. In the early 1890s, he became a prominent poster artist and his art appeared regularly in various magazines. By the late 1890s, Rhead turned his skills to book illustration. starting from 1902 he illustrated numerous children’s books published by Harpers and others. Most notable among these were editions of Robin Hood, The Swiss Family Robinson, Robinson Crusoe, The Deerslayer, Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Arabian Nights.
(source: https://www.pookpress.co.uk/project/louis-rhead-biography/)