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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] From the early 20th century, wildlife artist became a more usual ...
George Stubbs. George Stubbs ARA (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Reynolds and Gainsborough. Stubbs' output includes history paintings, but his greatest skill was in painting ...
Lolo the donkey ("Joachim-Raphaël Boronali") painting in front of witnesses. A painting partially made by Lolo the donkey, Et le soleil s'endormit sur l'Adriatique [] (Sunset Over the Adriatic) was exhibited at the 1910 Salon des Indépendants attributed to the 'excessivist' Genoan painter Joachim-Raphaël Boronali, an invention of writer and critic Roland Dorgelès, who painted much of the ...
Rosa Bonheur. Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. [1] Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, [2] first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris ...
William Hart (painter) Eli Harvey. Herbert Haseltine. Kendra Haste. Adolf Heinrich-Hansen. Nigel Hemming. Samuel Howitt. William Huggins (animal artist) Anna Hyatt Huntington.
This list of wildlife artists is a list for any notable wildlife artist, wildlife painter, wildlife photographer, other wildlife artist, society of wildlife artists, museum, or exhibition of wildlife art, worldwide.
Animalier. An animalier (/ ˌænɪməˈlɪər, ˈænɪməlɪər /, UK also / ˌænɪˈmælieɪ /) is an artist, mainly from the 19th century, who specializes in, or is known for, skill in the realistic portrayal of animals. "Animal painter" is the more general term for earlier artists. Although the work may be in any genre or format, the term ...
Awards. Great gold medal of the Exposition Universelle (1855) Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, [1] well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. His best-known works are the lion sculptures at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.