F. O. C. Darley

Felix Octavius Carr F. O. C. Darley was an American painter in watercolor and illustrator, known for his illustrations in works by wellknown 19thcentury authors, including James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Mary Mapes Dodge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, George Lippard, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Donald Grant Mitchell, Clement Clarke Moore, Frances Parkman, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nathaniel Parker Willis.

Darley was born on June 23, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a selftaught and prolific artist who started out as a staff artist for a Philadelphia publishing company where he was given a wide variety of assignments.

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