Four illustrations for The White Company by N.C.Wyeth published by David McKay Co 1922. Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of Americas greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books. At the start of the 1910s, N.C. Wyeth was hired to provide illustrations for Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island for book publishing house Charles Scribners Sons. Wyeth went on to continue his work with the company, developing a line that would come to be known as Scribners Illustrated Classics, including titles like The Boys King Arthur, The Last of the Mohicans, Drums and The Yearling. Wyeth won acclaim for his style of textured, moody paintings on the page, featuring personal vantage points with landscape work and giving the genre of childrens storytelling distinctive realism. The White Company (1891) is a historical adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the Hundred Years War. The story is set in England, France, and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward, the Black Prince to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of the Kingdom of Castile. The climax of the book occurs before the Battle of Nájera. Doyle became inspired to write the novel after attending a lecture on the Middle Ages in 1889. After extensive research, The White Company was published in serialized form in 1891 in Cornhill Magazine. Additionally, the book is considered a companion to Doyles later work Sir Nigel, which explores the early campaigns of Sir Nigel Loring and Samkin Aylward. The novel is relatively unknown today, though it was very popular up through the Second World War. In fact, Doyle himself regarded this and his other historical novels more highly than the Sherlock Holmes adventures for which he is mainly remembered. The White Company of the title is a free company of archers, led by one of the main characters. The name is taken from a real-life 14th-Century Italian mercenary company, led by John Hawkwood.
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