Abbot, John (1751–1840
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Marcus B. Simpson jun.
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Elizabeth Baigent
Angas, George French (1822–1886), artist and zoologist, born on 25 April 1822 in Newcastle upon Tyne, was the eldest son of George Fife Angas (1789–1879) and his wife, Rosetta French (1796–1867), who had three sons and four daughters. When he was a child his family moved to ...
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Yolanda Foote
Buckler, William (1814–1884), artist and entomologist, was born on 13 September 1814 at Newport, Isle of Wight, the son of William Buckler. The topographical artist John Buckler (1770–1851) was his uncle. He was educated at Newport, and then through the influence of Captain Ffarrington...
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Pamela Gilbert
Donovan, Edward (1768–1837), natural historian and artist, is of obscure origin and little is known of his early life and education. His interest in natural history started with the collecting of shells and preservation of insects, probably before 1788. He was a prolific author and skilled artist who etched and engraved the plates for all his works. He became a fellow of the ...
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Drake, John Poad (bap. 1794, d. 1883), inventor and artist, son of Thomas Drake and his wife, Frances Poad, was born in Stoke Damerel, Devon, where he was baptized on 20 July 1794. A shipwright in the naval dockyard at Plymouth, Thomas Drake...
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George Edwards (1694–1773) by Johann Sebastian Müller, 1754 (after Bartholomew Dandridge) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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A. Stuart Mason
Edwards, George (1694–1773), ornithologist and artist, was born on 3 April 1694 at Stratford, West Ham, Essex, to a family of Welsh descent. He was educated at a boarding-school in Leytonstone and at Brentwood grammar school. He was then apprenticed to John Dod...
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Christopher F. Lindsey
Fulton, Robert (1765–1815), engineer and artist, the elder son in the family of three daughters and two sons of Robert Fulton (d. 1774?), a tailor, farmer, and tradesman, and his wife, Mary Smith (d. 1799), was born on 14 November 1765 at a farmhouse in ...
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Ghillean T. Prance
Grierson, Mary Anderson (1912–2012), botanical artist, was born on 27 September 1912 at Bodfaen, Craig Y Don Road, Bangor, Caernarvonshire, the youngest of three children of Scottish parents from Dumfries, George Rae Grierson (1872–1935), laundry proprietor, and his wife, Anna, née Shortridge (1876–1945)...
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Moses Harris (1730–c. 1788) self-portrait, 1780 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Harris, Moses (1730–c. 1788), entomologist and artist, was born in Churchyard Alley, Holborn, London, on 15 April 1730, the son of Joseph Harris and his wife, Mary. He had at least two brothers, William and John, the latter a harpsichord maker who emigrated to ...
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Hulme, Frederick Edward (1841–1909), naturalist and artist, was born at Hanley, Staffordshire, on either 29 (his own claim) or 30 (according to his birth certificate) March 1841, the only son of Frederick William Hulme (1816–1884), landscape painter, and his wife, Caroline Jackson. In 1844 the family moved to ...
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Yolanda Foote
Lewin, John William (1770–1819), naturalist and artist, was born on 28 March 1770 and baptized at St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, London, on 15 April 1770. He was the son (and one of at least six children) of the naturalist and artist ...
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Yolanda Foote
Lewin, William (1747–1795), naturalist and artist, was born on 10 February 1747, the son of William Lewin, a rate mariner, and his wife, Anne. He was baptized on 6 July 1748 at St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, where he grew up. Probably in 1768 or 1769, he married ...
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See McEwen, Alexander Dundas [Alex, Eck]
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Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840) by Andrew Geddes, c. 1820–25 in the collection of the Royal Scottish Academy
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J. C. B. Cooksey
Nasmyth, Alexander (1758–1840), artist and engineer, was born on 9 September 1758 at his father's house at Anderson's Land in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh, the second of two children of Michael Naesmyth (1719–1803), an architect and builder, and his wife, Lillias Anderson, known as Mary...
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Oldham, John (1779–1840), artist and mechanical inventor, was born in Dublin. He served an apprenticeship to an engraver at a calico printing works in Dublin but subsequently pursued a career as an artist. While based at Newry he also developed his interest in mechanics. He invented a machine for individually numbering banknotes to prevent forgery and, in 1812, laid his plans before the ...
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Walter Potter (1835–1918) by unknown photographer courtesy of the British Historical Taxidermy Society
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