biography
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Thorburn, Archibald
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1860–1935)
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| biography:
| Bird artist, born in Lasswade, Midlothian, EC Scotland, UK. He studied at St John's Wood School of Art in London, and his first paintings were hung in the Royal Academy when he was only 20. He painted the majority of the plates of the monumental Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Isles (1885–97). He also published British Birds (4 vols, 1915–16), British Mammals (1920), and the immensely popular Observer's Book of British Birds (1937). |
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