Ethel Franklin Betts

Who was Ethel Franklin Betts?

Ethel Franklin Betts was an American illustrator primarily of children's books during the golden age of American illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Betts was the daughter of the physician Thomas Betts and Alice Whelan of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the sister of the illustrator Anna Whelan Betts. Betts studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, with the noted illustrator Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute, now Drexel University, and then at the Howard Pyle School in nearby Wilmington, Delaware.