4 sons: A.G.Alwis, photogr.&draughtsman at Dept.of Agriculture; Alfred, who succeeded him in 1902 as bot.illustr.; Edmund, museum ass.; Edwin, lab.ass
1842
1916
Peradenyia
Haramanis de Alwis Seneviratne (uncle/stepfather?) ; George de Alwis (brother)
Sri Lanka
officers & naturalists G. H. Kendrick Thwaites & Henry Trimen (1843-1896) ; Sir William Henry Gregory ; Frederic C. Moore: The Lepidoptera of Ceylon (London 1880-87) ; L. G. O. Woodhouse & George Morrison Reid Henry: Butterfly Fauna of Ceylon (1942) ; K. F. & P. B. Sarasin: Forschungen auf Ceylon (1887-1907) ; George King's monographs of Myristicaceae (1890) & Annonaceae (1893) ; Icones Plantarum Indiae orientalis & Flora sylvatica for southern India (both 1869-74) ;
botanic artist for Botanical Gardens, Kalutara (since 1865 until 1902); George King ; Robert Bentley (1821-1893)
Robert Wright's main artist Govindo in India ;
botanical, natural, and entomological drawing and watercolour
Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Rohan Pethiyogada: The family of Alwis Eneviratna of Sri Lanka. Pioneers of biological illustration, in: Journal of South Asian Natural History 4 (1999): 99-10 ;
Further Place of Activity: India (together with his brother George where they illustrated Icones Plantarum Indiae orientalis & Flora sylvatica for southern India.
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