biografía de Henry WORRALL (1825-1902)

Lugar de nacimiento: Liverpool (England)

Lugar de defunción: Topeka, KS

Direcciones: Buffalo, 1835; Cincinnati; Topeka, KS, late 1860s

Profesión: Illustrator and painter

Estudios: self-taught.

Comentarios: Brought to America at the age of ten, Worrall spent his youth mainly in Buffalo and Cincinnati and became well known in the latter city during the 1850s as a professional musician. In the late sixties he moved to Topeka (KS) where he soon became prominent both as a musician and as an artist. Though he painted some portraits and gave humorous illustrated lectures, it was as a delineator of Western scenes that he made his greatest reputation. His work appeared in Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper between 1877 and 1893 and he also illustrated several books of Western history. He signed variously as H. Worrall, Worrall, H. W., W, or monogram.

Fuentes: G&W; Taft, Artists and Illustrators of the Old West, 117-28; P&H Samuels, 538-39.