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Poynter, Edward John, Sir
Person · 1836-1919

Sir Edward John Poynter was an English Painter, designer, and draughtsman, who served as President of the Royal Academy

Marks, Henry Stacey
Person · 1829-1898

Henry Stacy Marks was a British artist who took a particular interest in Shakespearean and medieval themes in his early career and later in decorative art depicting birds and ornithologists as well as landscapes.

Person · 1861-1926

Sir Philip William Burne-Jones was a Victorian era British aristocrat, whose life and professional career as a painter spanned into the Edwardian. He produced more than 60 paintings, including portraits, landscapes and poetic fantasies

Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir
Person · 1849-1914

Sir Hubert von Herkomer was a Bavarian-born British painter, pioneering film director and composes

Goering, Christian Anton
Person · 1836-1905

Christian Anton Goering was a German naturalist, painter and graphic artist who spent several years in Venezuela. He learned taxidermy from his father, who was a member of several ornithological societies. It was at a meeting of one of these societies that he met Christian Ludwig Brehm who helped him obtain a position at the Ornithological Museum of the University of Halle, where he worked under the direction of Hermann Burmeister. From 1856 to 1858, they travelled in South America and he decided to pursue his interests in natural history. He also went to London, where he took lessons from the zoological artist Joseph Wolf. While he was there, the Secretary of the Zoological Society, Philip Lutley Sclater, asked him to go to Venezuela to collect specimens for the British Museum

Frith, William Powell
Person · 1819-1909

William Powell Frith was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting The Sleeping Model as his Diploma work