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Jones, Philip William Burne-, Sir
Persona · 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

Frith, William Powell
Persona · 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

Goering, Christian Anton
Persona · 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