German, 1740-1812  Related Paintings of Johann Ernst Heinsius :. | The Danaides (mk41) | Panicum ruscifolium | dekanresidenst pa sin ursprungliga plats vid stora kykogatan | Decorated oval japanned tray base with painted scene from Tristram Shandy, signed and attributed to Edward Bird. | St.Benedict Revives a Monk from under the Rubble |
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Hans Heysen
Sir Hans Heysen, OBE (8 October 1877 - 2 July 1968) was a well-known German Australian artist. He was particularly recognized for his watercolours of the Australian bush. He won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting a record nine times.
WITTEL, Caspar Andriaans van
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1653-1736
John Ballantyne
British Portrait painter , (1815-1897) was an English ornithologist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" was pivotal in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, though they are barely mentioned in Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species.Gould was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, the son of a gardener, and the boy probably had a scanty education. Shortly afterwards his father obtained a position on an estate near Guildford, Surrey, and then in 1818 became foreman in the Royal Gardens of Windsor. The young Gould started training as a gardener, being employed under his father at Windsor from 1818 to 1824, and he was subsequently a gardener at Ripley Castle in Yorkshire. He became an expert in the art of taxidermy and in 1824 he set himself up in business in London as a taxidermist