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Last Name Landseer

Given Name Thomas

alt. Names T. L. ;

Marriage Belinda

Children painter George Landseer (c. 1834-1878)

Year born 1795 or 1793/4 in London

Year died 1880

Place of death London

Father's occupation engraver John Landseer (1763 / 1769-1852)

Relatives painter Henry Landseer (fl. 1820-1826) (uncle) ; painter siblings: Anna Maria, Charles, Edwin, Emma, Jane, Jessica

Education pupil of father and Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846)

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for John Henry Barrow (1796-1858) ; Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856) ; Delabere Pritchett Blaine (1768-1845) ; Georges Léopold Chrétien Fréderick Dagobert, Baron de Cuvier (1769-1832) ; John Davidson Godman (1794-1830) ; Thomas Landseer (1795-1880) ; John Le Keux (1783-1846) ; Joseph Wilson Lowry (1803-1879) ; Sir John Richardson (1787-1865) ; William Scrope (1772-1852) ; John Davi Hugh Murray/William Wallace/Robert Jameson/WJ Hooker/William Swainson: Encylopedia of Geography 1834 ;

Patronage

Collaborators artist Edwin Landseer ; artist William Bewick ; artist W. Swainson ; artist G. B. Sowerby Jr. ; Strutt ; engraver John Landseer ; engraver R. E. Branston ;

Techniques natural and zoological copperplate engraving, etching, and aquatint

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Landseer_-_Alexander_and_Diogenes.jpg

Archival sources

Published sources AKL ; ThB 22 1928: 305 ; Cleevely 1974: 515; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 240, 285, 387, 1015, 1034, 1600, 2370f., 2440, 2568, 3385, & 3790 ;

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