2011年2月11日金曜日

Bird Painting/Artist

Sarah Stone
A female natural-history artist. 
The work of naturalist painter Sarah Stone (1760–1844) was inspired by unknown and often bizarre species being seen by Europeans for the first time as they were brought back to England from expeditions, such as those of Captain Cook, to the New World. Her brilliantly coloured and elegantly composed studies of exotic birds, mammals, reptiles, shells, fossils and native artefacts, which are included in Christine Jackson
Employed by John Latham as a colorist to produced copies of his works.




































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