A physician, zoologist and ornithologist, and talented painted, he was in Antarctic in 1902-03, then returned in 1910-12, when he died trying to return from the South Pole.
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A naturalist, geologist and painter in watercolours, he emigrated to Australia, where he prospected for gold. In 1860 he left with the Burke and Wills expedition, and died the following April.
Following another visit to Ecuador and Colombia in 1857, he painted his masterwork ‘The Heart of the Andes’, which had to be viewed using opera glasses to appreciate its intricate detail.
One of the founding American masters, sole pupil of the founder of the Hudson River School, his landscapes are meticulously detailed and painted in the studio from many plein air oil sketches.
An illustrated account of the 14th successful ascent of Mont Blanc, complete with champagne and red wine, and two oil paintings of other climbs.
From the Duke of Orleans white-water canoeing in Lapland in 1795, to Canadian fur traders shooting the rapids in the 1860s.
Contents with links to all the articles in this series, and a detailed index of all the countries and regions shown in paintings.
Pupil of Richard Wilson, one of the fathers of British landscape painting, he accompanied Captain Cook on his second exploratory voyage to the Pacific.
Between 1817 and 1842, he went on a succession of expeditions in the US, Colombia, and the Pacific islands, as artist and naturalist. Yet he was even buried in an unmarked grave. Does modesty pay?
He continued to add to his unique collection of paintings of birds after The Birds of America was published, and painted animals too.
