Harry Fenn

Harry Fenn emigrated from England to the United States in the early to mid 1860s and worked as a wood engraver in New York City before turning to painting and illustration. His earliest illustrated works were for John Greenleaf Whittier's Snowbound (1868) and Ballads of New England (1860). In the 1870s he became regarded for illustrations contributed to a series of gift book publications entitled Picturesque America, Picturesque Europe and Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. He illustrated many works for Harper's and Century and became a founder of the American Water Color Society, and member of the Society of Illustrators and the Salmagundi Club. In 1856 O'Hara became an editor for the Mobile Register and later entered the Civil War as a Confederate officer. After the war he returned to Alabama and died there in 1867.