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Carl Ethan Akeley (May 19, 1864 – November 17, 1926) was a pioneering American taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, and nature photographer, noted for his contributions to American museums, most notably to the Milwaukee Public Museum, Field Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History.
[7] [8] [2] Morgan works from a Bethnal Green studio. [1] Morgan is a member of the UK Guild of Taxidermists. [4] The animals used in her taxidermy are contributed by a network of clients; the animals Morgan uses have died naturally or had unpreventable deaths. [6] She maintains a detailed log of all dead animals in stock. [9]
When back injury ended his firefighting career in 1979, he then picked up a hobby that he would later turn into a successful business: taxidermy. “He was a taxidermist and was known all around ...
James Arnold Dickinson was born in Leeds in 1950. [1] [2] He recalled in 2008: "I used to collect bones, feathers and insects ever since I was a boy at school.During my A-levels in the 1960s, I saw an advert in a newspaper about a bursary for a taxidermist training course run by the Museums Association".
Takeshi Yamada is a Japanese-American artist and rogue taxidermist. Yamada was born Osaka, Japan, in 1960. [1] He began painting at the age of 12, and decided to become an artist at 16. [2] He was an international exchange student at the Osaka University of Arts before moving to the United States in 1983.
Carl Cotton (1918–1971 [1]) was an American taxidermist known for his work on exhibition development at the Field Museum of Natural History from 1947 to 1971. He was the first African American taxidermist at the Field Museum and, as noted by museum staff, likely the first professional black taxidermist in all of Chicago.
Edwin H. Ward worked for a while on Oxford Street for Thomas Mutlow Williams who exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. He then set up his own taxidermy shop in 1857 and received a royal warrant from Queen Victoria in 1870. Other distantly related Ward family members had taxidermy-related businesses as far away as New York and Australia.