William Matthew Hart(1830-1908) was an Irish-born English bird illustrator and lithographer who worked forJohn Gould.
William Matthew Hart | |
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| Born | 1830 |
| Died | 1908 Camberwell, London |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation(s) | Illustrator and lithographer |
Hart started medical training, but was unable to complete his studies for financial reasons. He began working for Gould in 1851, beginning an association that was to last thirty years. Early during this period he made the patterns for thelithographicplates for Gould's work onhummingbirds,as well as working onThe Birds of Great BritainwithHenry Constantine Richter.By 1870, Hart had become Gould's chief artist and lithographer. After Gould's death in 1881, Hart was employed byRichard Bowdler Sharpeof theBritish Museumto complete Gould's work on the birds of New Guinea and to produce illustrations for Sharpe's monograph on thebirds-of-paradise.[3][4][5]
References
edit- ^Christine E. Jackson:Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World.Antique Collectors Club, 1999, p 274-275.ISBN978-1-85149-203-9
- ^Roger J. Lederer: The Art of the Bird: The History of Ornithological Art Through Forty Artists, André Deutsch Ltd., 2019,ISBN978-0-2330-0607-9,2019, p 114–118
- ^Olsen, Penny (2001).Feather and brush: three centuries of Australian bird art.Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.ISBN978-0-643-06547-5.
- ^"William Matthew Hart (1830-1908)".Australian Museum.Retrieved1 August2010.
- ^Sharpe, R. Bowdler(1891–1898). "Preface".Monograph of the Paradiseidæ or Birds of Paradise and Ptilonorhinchidæ, or Bower-Birds.Vol. 1. London: Henry Sotheran.
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