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LOUIS JOHN, an Anglo- American artist, born in Etruria, England, in 1857. Having studied art at the Art Training School, South Kensington, London, he came to the United States in 1883, as art manager for a large publishing house. He painted in oil and water colors. Besides exhibiting in many American and European galleries, he also illustrated numerous books, especially the Louis Rhead series of juvenile classics. He also contributed to newspapers and magazines frequent articles on fly fishing. Gold medals were awarded to him at Boston, in 1895 and at St.
Louis, in 1904. He published "Bait Angling" (1907); "Book of Fish and Fishing" (1908); and "American Trout Stream Insects" (1916).