Archibald Thorburn
Archibald Thorburn is a Illustrateur specialized on the Oiseau X Scottish, born in 1860 and died in 1935.
It is the fifth wire of Robert Thorburn (1818-1885), miniaturist and portraitist of the Victoria queen. Thorburn studies with London near Joseph Wolf (1820-1899). It is charged, in 1887, to illustrate the work of Lord Lilford (1833-1896) off entitled Coloured Figures the Birds off the British Isles . The quality of its 268 pastels ensures a good reputation to him. Thorburn then illustrates many works of Natural history of which them his. It trains the illustrators Otto Murray Dixon and Philip Rickman. Thorburn carries out in particular the illustrations of The Birds off the British Isles and to their eggs (1920-1925) of Thomas Alfred Coward (1867-1933).
Source
- Translation of the article of English language of Wikipédia (version of January 29th, 2006).
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