19 October 1864?C21 August 1915  Related Paintings of Thomas Pakenham :. | Most of the French armada sent to Bantry By Limped back in January 1797 to their bases in France | Theobald Wolfe Tone,the 33-year-old | Lord Edward Fitzgerald | General Lazare Hoche the 28-year-old | Lord Cornwallis,who succeeded |
Related Artists:
Federico Faruffini
Italian, 1831-1869
BRAY, Joseph de
Dutch painter (d. 1664, Haarlem
John Gould
1804 - 1881. (Born Sept. 14, 1804, Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, England. Died Feb. 3, 1881, London) was an English ornithologist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" was pivotal in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, though they are barely mentioned in Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species.Gould was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, the son of a gardener, and the boy probably had a scanty education. Shortly afterwards his father obtained a position on an estate near Guildford, Surrey, and then in 1818 became foreman in the Royal Gardens of Windsor. The young Gould started training as a gardener, being employed under his father at Windsor from 1818 to 1824, and he was subsequently a gardener at Ripley Castle in Yorkshire. He became an expert in the art of taxidermy and in 1824 he set himself up in business in London as a taxidermist,