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  2. Animal painter - Wikipedia

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    An animal painter is an artist who specialises in (or is known for their skill in) the portrayal of animals. The OED dates the first express use of the term "animal painter" to the mid-18th century: by English physician, naturalist and writer John Berkenhout (1726–1791). [2]

  3. George Stubbs - Wikipedia

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    Stubbs also painted more exotic animals including lions, tigers, giraffes, monkeys, and rhinoceroses, which he was able to observe in private menageries. Painting of a kangaroo, 1772. His painting of a kangaroo was the first glimpse of this animal for many 18th-century Britons. [9]

  4. Animalier school - Wikipedia

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    Animalier school or animalier [1] [2] [3] art was a late-18th and 19th-century artistic genre and school of artists who focused on depictions of animals. The movement was largely centered in France, with some artists producing related subject matter in England, Italy, Germany, Russia, and North America.

  5. List of wildlife artists - Wikipedia

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    This list of wildlife artists is a list for any notable wildlife artist, wildlife painter, wildlife photographer, other wildlife artist, society of wildlife artists, ...

  6. Edmund Bristow - Wikipedia

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    The Interrupted Wedding, now in the Berger Collection at the Denver Art Museum. Edmund Bristow (1 Apr 1787 – 12 Feb 1876) was an English animal , still life and subject painter. Life and work

  7. George Garrard - Wikipedia

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    Hunter and Huntsman, 1785, Indianapolis Museum of Art. George Garrard ARA (31 May 1760 – 8 October 1826) was an English animal, landscape and portrait painter, modeller, sculptor, engraver and printmaker. He played a major role in lobbying Parliament to introduce legislation to protect the copyright of works by modellers of animal and human ...

  8. Jacques-Laurent Agasse - Wikipedia

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    Nagler says that he was one of the most celebrated animal painters at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. In Johann Georg Meusel's Neue Miscellaneen (viii. 1052 et seq.), he compares Agasse and Wouwermans, wholly in favour of the former. In that partial article much is said of his extreme devotion to art, of his marvelous ...

  9. William Sawrey Gilpin - Wikipedia

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    Gilpin was born at Scaleby Castle, Cumbria [3] on 4 October 1762, the son of the animal painter Sawrey Gilpin. He attended the school of his uncle, William Gilpin (originator of the Picturesque), at Cheam in Surrey. He married Elizabeth Paddock; they had two (or possibly three) sons, one of whom seems to have remained dependent on his father.