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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, ...
Carl Brenders (born 1937) is a naturalist and painter, born near Antwerp, Belgium. [1] The painter is most famous for his detailed and lifelike paintings of wildlife. Some of the artist's accomplishments include illustrations of wildlife for La Vie secrète des bêtes, a book series (published in English as Nature's Hidden World), and being named the 24th Master Artist at the 2002 Birds in Art ...
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 ]
Ray Harm (November 9, 1926 – April 9, 2015) was an American artist, best known for his paintings of wildlife, primarily birds.He was also well known for art marketing and is generally credited as the co-creator of the limited edition art print market, which supplanted the traditional method where artists sold original works on an individual basis.
Frank Weston Benson made paintings, drawings and etchings of Wildlife.He also made portraits, waterscapes, landscapes, interiors and other works of art. Benson, an avid birdwatcher and hunter from a young age, spent nearly every non-winter weekend hunting or fishing. [1]
Richard David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA (25 April 1931 – 19 September 2017) [1] was a British artist and one of the world's most outspoken conservationists. [2] He was most famous for his paintings of steam locomotives (he owned a number of them) and wildlife, although he also often painted aircraft, portraits (notably The Queen Mother) and landscapes.
He was the first wildlife artist in North America to turn all his efforts as a painter to documenting exotic animals of the world's tropics. He first traveled to British Guiana (Guyana) in 1969 and made seventeen expeditions to the Amazon Basin, the Peruvian Andes, Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and Thailand.
The original had intended to depict "the beginning of the world — with Pan and Echo and sylvan gods, and a forest full of centaurs, and a wild background of woods, mountains and rivers." [ 2 ] The artist, at some point, decided that the subject was too large and settled on the present design in a series of sketches made in the mid-1870s.