An animal painter is an artist who specialises in (or is known for their skill in) the portrayal of animals. The ''

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'' dates the first express use of the term "animal painter" to the mid-18th century: by English

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, naturalist and writer

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(1726-1791). From the early 20th century, ''wildlife artist'' became a more usual term for contemporary animal painters.

History

Frans Snyders and workshop - The boar hunt - Google Art Project

Especially in the 17th century, animal painters would often collaborate with other artists, who would either paint the main subject in a historical or mythological piece, or the landscape background in a decorative one.

Frans Snyders Frans Snyders or Frans Snijders (11 November 1579, Antwerp – 19 August 1657, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter of animals, hunting scenes, market scenes and still lifes. He was one of the earliest specialist animaliers and he is credited with ...

, a founder of the Baroque animal painting tradition, often provided the animals, and also still lifes of food, for

Peter Paul Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradi ...

; a different landscape specialist might provide the background. The paintings by Snyders and his workshop alone typically lack humans, except in kitchen scenes, and usually show a number of animals of different species (or breeds of dog). There are about equal numbers of paintings of dead animals, usually in a kitchen setting or as hunting trophies in a landscape, and of live ones, often in ferocious combat. In the Dutch Golden Age such specialists tended to produce smaller genre paintings concentrating on their specialism. Animal painters came lower down in the

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, but the best painters could make a very good living; many royal and aristocratic patrons were more interested in their subject matter than that of the more prestigious genres. Mainly in England, there were still more specialised painters from the 18th century who produced portraits of racehorses and prize specimens of livestock, whereas in France animal subjects continued to be decorative capriccios often set around garden statuary. In 2014 Jonathan Jones of ''

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'' proposed '' The Goldfinch'' (1654) by Carel Fabritius (1622-1654) as the finest animal portrait; this was not the artist's normal subject matter at all.

Animalier

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Animalier An animalier (, ) is an artist, mainly from the 19th century, who specializes in, or is known for, skill in the realistic portrayal of animals. "Animal painter" is the more general term for earlier artists. Although the work may be in any genre ...

, as a collective plural noun, is a term used in

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for small-scale sculptures of animals in particular (animalier bronzes), but also paintings of animals. Large numbers of these were produced - often mass-produced - in the 19th century in France and elsewhere. Many earlier examples can be found, but

animalier An animalier (, ) is an artist, mainly from the 19th century, who specializes in, or is known for, skill in the realistic portrayal of animals. "Animal painter" is the more general term for earlier artists. Although the work may be in any genre ...

sculpture became more popular, and reputable, in early 19th century Paris, with the works of

Antoine-Louis Barye Antoine-Louis Barye (24 September 179525 June 1875) was a Romantic French sculptor most famous for his work as an ''animalier'', a sculptor of animals. His son and student was the known sculptor Alfred Barye. Biography Born in Paris, France, Ba ...

(1795-1875) - for whom the term was coined, decisively, by critics in 1831 - and

Christopher Fratin Christopher Fratin (1 January 1801 – 16 August 1864), also known as Christophe Fratin, was a noted French sculptor in the animalier style, and one of the earliest French sculptors to portray animals in bronze. Early life Fratin was born in Me ...

(1801-1864). By the mid 19th-century, a taste for animal subjects was widespread among the middle-classes.

Wildlife conservation

Many modern wildlife artists or art groups hold benefits to support

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, or participate in contests held by wildlife conservation organisations.

Notable animal painters

Before 1800

* Francis Barlow (c. 1626-1704) *

Jan Brueghel the Elder Jan Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Elder (, ; ; 1568 – 13 January 1625) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. He was the son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. A close friend and frequent collabora ...

(1568-1625) *

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (baptized 23 March 16095 May 1664) was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monoty ...

(1609-1664) *

Nicasius Bernaerts Nicasius Bernaerts, Monsù Nicasio or simply Nicasius(1620, Antwerp – 1678, Paris) was a Southern Netherlands, Flemish Animalier, painter of animals, hunting pieces and flowers who had an international career in Italy and Paris. He worked for ...

(1620-1678) *

Pieter Boel Pieter Boel or Peeter Boel (baptized on 10 October 1622 – 3 September 1674) was a Flemish painter, printmaker and tapestry designer. He specialised in lavish still lifes and animal paintings. He moved to Paris, where he worked in the gobel ...

(1626-1674) *

Peter van Boucle Peter van BoucleName variations: Peter van Boeckel, Pieter van Boeckel, Pierre van Boucle, Pieter van Boeckel, Pieter van Bouck, Pieter van Boucle, Pieter van Bouck, Pieter Boucle, Pierre van Boucle (between 1600 en 1610 (?), probably Antwerp - 1 ...

(between 1600 & 1610-1673) *

Charles Catton Charles Catton RA (1728 in Norwich – 28 August 1798, in London), sometimes referred to as Charles Catton the elder, was a notable English coach painter, landscape, animal and figure painter of the late 18th century, and one of the founder me ...

(1728-1798) * David de Coninck (c. 1644-1701+) * Marmaduke Cradock (1660-1716) * Thomas Davies (c. 1737-1812) *

Alexandre-François Desportes Alexandre-François Desportes (24 February 1661 — 20 April 1743) was a French painter and decorative designer who specialised in animals. Desportes was born in Champigneulle, Ardennes. He studied in Paris, in the studio of the Flemish painter ...

(1661-1743) *

Karel Dujardin Karel Dujardin (September 27, 1626November 20, 1678) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Although he did a few portraits and a few history paintings of religious subjects, most of his work is small Italianate landscape scenes with animals and peasan ...

(1622-1678) *

C. G. Finch-Davies Claude Gibney Finch-Davies (24 May 1875 – 4 August 1920) was a British soldier, ornithologist and painter who produced a series of paintings of birds of South Africa in the early part of the 20th century. Life history He was born in Delh ...

(1875-1920) *

Jan Fyt Jan Fijt or Johannes Fijt (or Fyt) (19 August 1609 – 11 September 1661) was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and etcher. One of the leading animaliers of the 17th century, he was known for his refined depictions of animals and his lush h ...

(1611-1661) * George Garrard (1760-1826) *

Sawrey Gilpin Sawrey Gilpin (30 October 1733 – 8 March 1807) was an English animal painter, illustrator, and etcher who specialised in paintings of horses and dogs. He was made a Royal Academician. Life and work Gilpin was born in Carlisle in Cumbr ...

(1733-1807) *

Melchior d'Hondecoeter Melchior d'Hondecoeter (; 1636 – 3 April 1695), Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscap ...

(c. 1636-1695) *

Samuel Howitt Samuel Howitt (1756/57–1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher of animals, hunting, horse-racing and landscape scenes. He worked in both oils and watercolors. Life and work Howitt was a member of an old Nottinghamshire Q ...

(1756/57–1822) *

Jean-Baptiste Huet Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet (Paris, 15 October 1745 – Paris, 27 January 1811) was a French painter, engraver and designer associated with pastoral and genre scenes of animals in the Rococo manner, influenced by François Boucher. Born into ...

(1745-1811) * Jan Baptiste de Jonghe (1785-1844) * William Lewin (1747-1795) *

George Morland George Morland (26 June 176329 October 1804) was an English painter. His early work was influenced by Francis Wheatley, but after the 1790s he came into his own style. His best compositions focus on rustic scenes: farms and hunting; smugglers a ...

(1763-1804) * Balthasar Paul Ommeganck (1755–1826) *

Jean-Baptiste Oudry Jean-Baptiste Oudry (; 17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Ch ...

(1686-1755) *

Paulus Potter Paulus Potter (; 20 November 1625 (baptised) – 17 January 1654 (buried)) was a Dutch painter who specialized in animals within landscapes, usually with a low vantage point. Before Potter died of tuberculosis at the age of 28 he succeeded in ...

(1625-1654) *

Philip Reinagle Philip Reinagle (1749 – 27 November 1833) was an English painter of animals, landscapes, and botanical scenes. The son of a Hungarian musician living in Edinburgh, Reinagle came to London in 1763 and after serving an apprenticeship, later bec ...

(1749-1833) * Sartorius family * Roelandt Savery (1576-1639) *

James Seymour James Seymour (1702–1752) was an English painter, widely recognized for his equestrian art. Seymour was born in London. His father was an amateur artist and art dealer, whose other business dealings (as a banker, goldsmith, and diamond ...

(1702–1752) *

Charles Loraine Smith Charles Loraine Smith or Charles Loraine (1 April 1751 – 24 August 1835) was a sportsman, artist and politician. He inherited his family seat in Enderby, Leicestershire while still a boy. He was a keen horseman and his paintings of animals are ...

(1751-1835) *

(1579-1657) *

George Stubbs George Stubbs (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Joshua Reynolds, Reynold ...

(1724-1806) * Charles Towne (1763-1840) * Jacob Xavier Vermoelen (c. 1714-1784) *

Paul de Vos Paul de Vos (1591/92, or 1595 in Hulst – 30 June 1678 in Antwerp) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in mainly in compositions of animals, hunting scenes and still lifes. He worked for an elite clientele and was a regular collaborat ...

(1591/92 or 1595-1678), brother of Cornelis de Vos and brother-in-law of Frans Snyders *

James Ward James Ward may refer to: Military *James Ward (Medal of Honor, 1864) (1833–?), American Civil War sailor * James Ward (Medal of Honor, 1890) (1854–1901), American Indian Wars soldier *James Allen Ward (1919–1941), New Zealand pilot and Vi ...

(1769-1859), brother-in-law of George Morland *

Jan Weenix Jan Weenix or Joannis Wenix (between 1641/164919 September 1719 (buried)) was a Dutch painter. He was trained by his father, Jan Baptist Weenix, together with his cousin Melchior d'Hondecoeter. Like his father, he painted various subjects, but ...

(between 1640 & 1649-1719) *

John Wootton John Wootton (c.1686– 13 November 1764)Deuchar, S. (2003). "Wootton, John". Grove Art Online. was an English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes, and illustrator. Life Born in Snitterfield, Warwickshire (near Stratfo ...

(c. 1682–1764)

After 1800

Henry Thomas Alken Henry Thomas Alken (12 October 1785 – 7 April 1851) was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes.R. R. TatlockHenry Alken(The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs ...

(1785-1851) * Richard Ansdell (1815-1885) * John James Audubon (1875-1851)Plain, Nancy ''This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon''. University of Nebraska Press, 2015. * Charles Burton Barber (1845–1894) * James Barenger (1780-1831) * Henry Barraud (1811-1874); his son,

Francis Barraud Francis James Barraud (16 June 1856 – 29 August 1924) was an English painter. He is best known for his work ''His Master's Voice'', one of the most famous commercial logos in the world, having inspired a music industry trademark used by corpora ...

(1856–1924), painted "Nipper" the dog on the "

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" record label *

Rosa Bonheur Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals ( animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include ''Ploughing in the Nivernais'', fir ...

(1822-1899) * John Boultbee (1753-1812) * Edmund Bristow (1787-1876) *

Abraham Cooper Abraham Cooper (1787–1868) was a British animal and battle painter. Life The son of a tobacconist, he was born in Greenwich, London on the 8th September 1787.Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803-1902) * Horatio Henry Couldery (1832–1918) * John Dalby (1810-1865) * Samuel Daniell (1775-1811) *

Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: Britis ...

(1798-1863) * Herbert Dicksee (1862-1942) *

John Henry Dolph John Henry Dolph (April 18, 1835 – September 28, 1903) was an American painter. Eventually based in New York City, he became notable for his depictions of pets such as dogs and kittens. Life John Henry Dolph was born on April 18, 1835, in Fort ...

(1835-1903) * John Emms (1844-1912) * Ivan Efimov (1878–1959) *

Frederick William Frohawk Frederick William Frohawk (16 July 1861 – 10 December 1946) was an England, English zoological artist and lepidopterist. Frohawk was the author of ''Natural History of British Butterflies'' (1914), ''The Complete Book of British Butterflies' ...

(1861-1946) *

John Gould John Gould (; 14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist. He published a number of monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward Lear, ...

(1804-1881) * Roland Green (1890/6-1972) * Harry Hall (c. 1814-1882) * Charles Hancock (c. 1800-1877) *

Heywood Hardy Heywood Hardy (25 November 1842 – 20 January 1933) was a British artist, in particular an animal painter and painter of horse riding scenes. He also painted landscapes and portraits, especially equestrian portraits. Early life Heywood Hard ...

(1842-1933) * John Frederick Herring Jr. (1820–1907) *

John Frederick Herring Sr. John Frederick Herring Sr. (12 September 1795 – 23 September 1865), also known as John Frederick Herring I, was a painter, sign maker and coachman in Victorian England.William Huggins Sir William Huggins (7 February 1824 – 12 May 1910) was an English astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife, Margaret. Biography William Huggins was born at Cornhill, Middlesex, in ...

(1820-1884) *

Charles Jacque Charles-Émile Jacque (23 May 1813 – 7 May 1894) was a French painter of Pastoralism and engraver who was, with Jean-François Millet, part of the Barbizon School. He first learned to engrave maps when he spent seven years in the French Army. ...

(1813-1894) *

Lucy Kemp-Welch Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch (20 June 1869 – 27 November 1958) was a British artist and teacher who specialised in painting horses. Though increasingly overlooked after the Second World War, from the late 1890s to the mid 1920s she was one o ...

(1869-1958) * Frederick William Keyl (1823–1871) *

Charles R. Knight Charles Robert Knight (October 21, 1874 – April 15, 1953) was an American wildlife and paleoartist best known for his detailed paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. His works have been reproduced in many books and are currently ...

(1874-1953) * Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926) *

Edwin Landseer Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. However, his best-known works are the lion sculptures at the bas ...

(1802-1873) *

Bruno Liljefors Bruno Andreas Liljefors (; 14 May 1860 – 18 December 1939) was a Swedish artist. He is perhaps best known for his nature and animal motifs, especially with dramatic situations. He was the most important and probably most influential Swedish wil ...

(1860-1931) *

George Edward Lodge George Edward Lodge FZS, (3 December 1860 – 5 February 1954)Savory ''op. cit.'' was a British illustrator of birds and an authority on falconry. Early life George Edward Lodge was born at Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire. His father, Samuel Lodg ...

(1860-1954) *

Matilda Lotz Matilda Lotz (1858–1923) was an American painter. She was one of California's premiere female artists, as well as a prominent animal portraitist. Lotz was born and raised in the Lotz House, which became the site of an American Civil War Battle, ...

(1858-1923) *

Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (September 18, 1865 – February 11, 1926) was a German painter, author and illustrator, who specialized in animal images. After illustrating the books of Alfred Brehm, he travelled to German East Africa to observe ...

(1825-1896) *

John Guille Millais John Guille Millais ( , also ; 24 March 1865 – 24 March 1931) was a British artist, naturalist, gardener and travel writer who specialised in wildlife and flower portraiture. He travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian p ...

(1865-1931) * Sir

Alfred Munnings Sir Alfred James Munnings, (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several presti ...

(1878-1959) *

Ramsay Richard Reinagle Ramsay Richard Reinagle (19 March 1775 – 17 November 1862) was an English portrait, landscape, and animal painter, and son of Philip Reinagle. Biography Ramsay Richard Reinagle was a pupil of his father Philip Reinagle, whose style he fo ...

(1775-1862) *

Jan Hendrik Scheltema Jan Hendrik Scheltema (23 August 1861, in The Hague – 9 December 1941, in Brisbane), was a Dutch and later Australian painter who had a prolific, often strenuous, and arguably impressive career in Australia considering he was a non-British mi ...

(1861-1941) *

Prideaux John Selby Prideaux John Selby FRSE FLS (23 July 1788 – 27 March 1867) was an English ornithologist, botanist and natural history artist. Life Selby was born in Bondgate Street in Alnwick in Northumberland, the eldest son of George Selby of Beal a ...

(1788-1867) * Vasily Vatagin (1883–1969) * Christopher Webb Smith (1793-1871) *

Charles Tunnicliffe Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, Order of the British Empire, OBE, Royal Academy of Arts, RA (1 December 1901 – 7 February 1979) was an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife. He spent most of his work ...

(1901-1979) * Arthur Wardle (1860-1949) *

Herbert William Weekes Herbert William Weekes (8 May 1841 – 21 November 1914) was a well-known English genre and animal painter of the Victorian Neoclassical period who specialized in portraying animals in humorous, human-like situations. Early life and family We ...

(c. 1842-1904+)

Modern

Modern wildlife art painters include: * Thierry Bisch (b. 1953) * Elizabeth Butterworth (b. 1949) - parrots * Charles Church (b. 1970) *

John Clymer John Ford Clymer (January 29, 1907 – November 2, 1989) was an American painter and illustrator known for his nature works featuring the American West. Early life and education Born in Ellensburg, Washington, Clymer first studied art thr ...

(1907-1989) * Kim Donaldson (b. 1952) * Gary Hodges (b. 1954) * Ron Like (b. 1935 ) * Lanford Monroe (1950-2000) * Stephen D. Nash (b. 1954) * David Nurney (b. 1959) * David Quinn (b. 1959) * Mark Upton (b. 1964) * Diana Joseph * Sue Coleman * J.S.Munnolli (b. 1940) Forerunners of modern wildlife art sculpture include: *

Rembrandt Bugatti Rembrandt Bugatti (16 October 1884 – 8 January 1916) was an Italian sculptor, known primarily for his bronze sculptures of wildlife subjects. During World War I, he volunteered for paramedical work at a military hospital in Antwerp, an experie ...

(1884-1916) *

François Pompon François Pompon (9 May 1855 – 6 May 1933) was a French sculptor and animalier. Pompon made his Salon debut in 1879, exhibiting a statue of Victor Hugo's Cosette (from ''Les Misérables''). He was a pioneer of modern stylized animalier scu ...

(1855-1933) Modern wildlife art sculptors include: * Tessa Pullan (b. 1953) * John Rattenbury Skeaping (1901-1980) * Jo Walker

Gallery

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'' (1626) by

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;

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, London. File:A sparrow. Engraving by P. Tempest, ca. 1690, after F. Barlo Wellcome V0022146.jpg, ''A sparrow'' (c. 1690) by Francis Barlow; engraving by Pierce Tempest. File:Jan Weenix 003.jpg, A typical composition of dead game from 1692 by

, probably an

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for a country house. File:Gulliver-taking-his-final-leave-of-the-land-of-the-houyhnhnms-sawrey-gilpin.jpg,

's '' Gulliver taking his final leave of the land of the Houyhnhnms'' (1769). File:Birds of Prey, Goats and a Wolf, in a Landscape by Philip Reinagle.jpg,

's ''Birds of Prey, Goats and a Wolf, in a Landscape''. File:Morland Dogs.jpg, Morland's ''Dogs'' (1792);

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, '' A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother'', 1830,

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. File:LandseerMonarch1851.jpg,

Landseer Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his animal art, paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. However, his best-known works are the lion sculptures ...

's '' Monarch of the Glen'' (1851);

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. File:Two thoroughbreds in a landscape by Charles Hancock, 1828.tif, ''Two thoroughbreds in a wide landscape'' (1828) by Charles Hancock.

References

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