• Source: Peter Brown (naturalist)

Peter Brown (active 1758–1799) was an English naturalist and natural history illustrator of Danish ancestry who worked mainly in London.




Life and work



Brown was an associate of the great English naturalists Thomas Pennant and Joseph Banks. Though primarily an illustrator, he wrote the scientific descriptions of some species, such as the brightly marked North American Arctiid moth Haploa clymene. Brown's illustrations included birds, botanical subjects and insects.




Published works


Brown illustrated Emanuel Mendes da Costa's book, Elements of Conchology, or An Introduction to the Knowledge of Shells (1771).
In 1776, Brown published his own work, New illustrations of Zoology, "containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript birds, with a few quadrupeds, reptiles and insects. Together with a short and scientific description of the same", published in London by White, and in French as "Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie, contenant cinquante planches enluminées d'oiseaux curieux, et qui non etés jamais descrits, et quelques de quadrupedes, de reptiles et d'insectes, avec de courtes descriptions systematiques".
Brown contributed to Pennant's Arctic Zoology (1784–1785).




Exhibitions and distinctions


Brown exhibited at the Free Society of Artists and the Royal Academy from 1770 until 1791. He was appointed to be Botanical Painter to the Prince of Wales in 1783. He contributed botanical illustrations to private albums of Elizabeth Montagu, wife of George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, implying that he was her drawing master and tutor. According to Christie's, his drawings "reveal an extremely high level of accomplishment".




See also


Papilio dardanus




References






= Sources

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Blunt, W. (1951). The Art of Botanical Illustration. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 151.
Whitehead, P.J.P. (1977) Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717–91) and the Conchology, or natural history of shells. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Historical Series, Vol.6 (1) pp 1–24.
Attribution:

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Brown, Peter". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.




External links


Zoologica GDZ Full digitised Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie
polybiblio.com—accessed 3 June 2007
National Gallery of Australia—accessed 3 June 2007
Lepidoptera and some other life forms, account for genus Haploa—accessed 3 June 2007

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