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

John Berkenhout John Berkenhout (8 July 1726 – 3 April 1791) was an English physician, naturalist and miscellaneous writer. He was educated as a physician at Edinburgh and Leyden. While at Edinburgh he published a botanical lexicon ''Clavis Anglicae Linguae ...

(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

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or mythological piece, or the

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

background in a decorative one. Frans Snyders, 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 traditio ...

; 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

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such specialists tended to produce smaller genre paintings concentrating on their specialism. Animal painters came lower down in the hierarchy of genres, 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 Carel Pietersz. Fabritius (; bapt. 27 February 1622 – 12 October 1654) was a Dutch painter. He was a pupil of Rembrandt and worked in his studio in Amsterdam. Fabritius, who was a member of the Delft School, developed his own artistic style ...

(1622-1654) as the finest animal portrait; this was not the artist's normal subject matter at all.

Animalier

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Animalier, as a collective plural noun, is a term used in antiques 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 sculpture became more popular, and reputable, in early 19th century Paris, with the works of Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875) - for whom the term was coined, decisively, by critics in 1831 - and Christopher Fratin (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 wildlife conservation, 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 collaborato ...

(1568-1625) * Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (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 (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 (1728-1798) *

David de Coninck David de Coninck or David de Koninck, also known as Rammelaer (ca. 1644, Antwerp – after 1701, probably Brussels) was a Flemish painter who specialised in still lifes and landscapes with animals and hunting scenes. Recognised as a leading ani ...

(c. 1644-1701+) *

Marmaduke Cradock Marmaduke Cradock (1660 – 24 March 1716) was an English painter of birds and animals. Some older sourcesIncluding Bryan and Walpole give his first name as Luke. Life Cradock was an English painter, noted for his depictions of birds, dead gam ...

(1660-1716) * Thomas Davies (c. 1737-1812) * Alexandre-François Desportes (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 ...

(1611-1661) *

George Garrard George Garrard (31 May 1760 – 8 October 1826) was an English animal, landscape and portrait painter, modeller, sculptor, engraver and printmaker. He played a major role in lobbying Parliament to introduce legislation to protect the copyri ...

(1760-1826) * Sawrey Gilpin (1733-1807) * Melchior d'Hondecoeter (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 Quak ...

(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 Jan Baptiste de Jonghe or Jean-Baptiste de Jonghe (Kortrijk, 8 January 1785 – Schaerbeek, 14 October 1844) was a Belgian painter, draughtsman, etcher and lithographer. He is known for his Romantic landscapes with people, herds and ruins.

(1785-1844) *

William Lewin William Lewin (1747–1795) was an English naturalist and illustrator. Lewin grew up in Stepney, the son of a rate mariner. In 1776 he was earning a living as a pattern drawer, and by 1783 was describing himself as a painter. He specialised ...

(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 Balthasar Paul Ommeganck (sometimes also: Paul Balthasar Ommeganck) (1755–1826) was a Flemish painter of landscape painter, landscapes and animal painter, animals active in Antwerp. Through his work and his role as an art teacher and founder o ...

(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 p ...

(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 The Sartorius family of the 18th–19th centuries included several generations of English artists—of German origin—who mainly specialised in painting horses, horse-racing and hunting scenes: *Jacob Christopher Sartorius ( fl. 1694–1737), ...

Roelandt Savery Roelant Savery (or ''Roeland(t) Maertensz Saverij'', or ''de Savery'', or many variants; 1576 – buried 25 February 1639) was a Flanders-born Dutch Golden Age painter. Life Savery was born in Kortrijk. Like so many other artists, he belonge ...

(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 (1751-1835) * Frans Snyders (1579-1657) * George Stubbs (1724-1806) * Charles Towne (1763-1840) *

Jacob Xavier Vermoelen Jacob Xavier Vermoelen or Jacob Xaver VermoelenName variations: Jacobus Xaverus Vermoelen, Jacques Xavier Vermoelen, Jacob Xaver Vermolen (c. 1714 - 1784) was a Habsburg Netherlands, Flemish painter of still lifes and game pieces who was active in ...

(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 collaborato ...

(1591/92 or 1595-1678), brother of

Cornelis de Vos Cornelis de Vos (1584 – 9 May 1651) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and art dealer. He was one of the leading portrait painters in Antwerp and is best known for his sensitive portraits, in particular of children and families. He was a ...

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 (between 1640 & 1649-1719) * John Wootton (c. 1682–1764)

After 1800

* Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851) *

Richard Ansdell Richard Ansdell (11 May 1815 – 20 April 1885) was a British painter of animals and genre scenes. Life Ansdell was born in Liverpool (then in Lancashire), the son of Thomas Griffiths Ansdell, a freeman who worked at the port, and Anne Jacks ...

(1815-1885) *

John James Audubon John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin; April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictoria ...

(1875-1851)Plain, Nancy ''This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon''. University of Nebraska Press, 2015. *

Charles Burton Barber Charles Burton Barber (1845–1894) was a British painter who attained great success with his paintings of children and their pets. Barber was born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, and studied from the age of 18 at the Royal Academy, London - ...

(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 England, 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 b ...

(1856–1924), painted "Nipper" the dog on the " His Master's Voice" record label * Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) * John Boultbee (1753-1812) *

Edmund Bristow Edmund Bristow (1 Apr 1787 – 12 Feb 1876) was an English animal, still life and subject painter. Life and work Bristow was born in Eton, Berkshire, the son of an heraldic painter. At an early age he was patronised by the Princess Elizabeth, ...

(1787-1876) * Abraham Cooper (1787–1868) *

Thomas Sidney Cooper Thomas Sidney Cooper (26 September 18037 February 1902) was an English landscape painter noted for his images of cattle and farm animals. Biography Thomas Sidney Cooper was born in St Peter's Street in Canterbury, Kent, and as a small child ...

(1803-1902) * Horatio Henry Couldery (1832–1918) * John Dalby (1810-1865) *

Samuel Daniell Samuel Daniell (1775 – 16 December 1811) was an English painter of natural history and other scenes in Africa and Ceylon. He first went to South Africa in 1799. Life Daniell is perhaps best known as the appointed artist for a 1799-18 ...

(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 Herbert Thomas Dicksee (14 June 1862 – 20 February 1942)Art Magick biography< ...

(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 Ivan Efimov (russian: Иван Семёнович Ефимов 11 February 1878 – 7 January 1959) was a Russian sculptor. Along with his wife, Nina Simonovich-Efimova, the couple founded the tradition of Soviet puppet theater. Since 1958 he ha ...

(1878–1959) *

Frederick William Frohawk Frederick William Frohawk (16 July 1861 – 10 December 1946) was an English zoological artist and lepidopterist. Frohawk was the author of ''Natural History of British Butterflies'' (1914), ''The Complete Book of British Butterflies'' (1934) ...

(1861-1946) * John Gould (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. (1795–1865) * William Huggins (1820-1884) * Charles Jacque (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 Frederick William Keyl (originally Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl; 17 September 1823 – 5 December 1871), born in Germany, was an animal painter in England; he received many commissions for paintings from Queen Victoria. Life Keyl was born in Frankfur ...

(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 (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 (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 foll ...

(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 (1788-1867) *

Vasily Vatagin Vasily Alekseyevich Vatagin (20 December 1883 – 31 May 1969) was a wildlife artist who worked on a variety of media producing paintings, sculpture, reliefs and illustrations. His works have been used in books and are installed in many institu ...

(1883–1969) *

Christopher Webb Smith Christopher Webb Smith (30 May 1793 Camberwell - 18 January 1871 Florence), was an English-born bird painter and public official. After joining the East India Company he was sent to India in 1811, where he remained in various administrative posts ...

(1793-1871) *

Charles Tunnicliffe Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, OBE, RA (1 December 1901 – 7 February 1979) was an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife. He spent most of his working life on the Isle of Anglesey. He is popularly ...

(1901-1979) *

Arthur Wardle Arthur Wardle (1864–1949) was a British painter. Born in London, aged just sixteen Wardle had a piece displayed at the Royal Academy. His first exhibit was a study of cattle by the River Thames, leading to a lifelong interest in painting ...

(1860-1949) * Herbert William Weekes (c. 1842-1904+)

Modern

Modern wildlife art painters include: *

Thierry Bisch Thierry Bisch (born 1953 in Strasbourg, France) is a French artist. Early life and education Bisch comes from a family with industrial interests in France. The work of his great-grand father, the painter Louis Janmot (1814–1892), had a profoun ...

(b. 1953) *

Elizabeth Butterworth She raised parrots and loved them very much. Elizabeth Butterworth (born 1949) is an English artist, especially known for her paintings of parrots. She was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, and studied at the Rochdale School of Art 1966–1968, Maids ...

(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 Kim Donaldson (born 1952 in Southern Rhodesia) is a Zimbabwean artist who specializes in painting the peoples and wildlife of Africa. Having spent his early life on a ranch in what was Rhodesia, Donaldson was perfectly placed to develop and nu ...

(b. 1952) *

Gary Hodges Gary Hodges (born 1954) is a British artist and publisher much admired internationally for his graphite pencil wildlife art."Drawn to the Soul" Wild Press, Introduction by Simon Trapnell, 2010, His original drawings and limited edition prints h ...

(b. 1954) * Ron Like (b. 1935 ) *

Lanford Monroe Lanford Monroe (1950–2000) was an internationally known American realist painter and sculptor. She was best known for impressionistic oil paintings frequently featuring wildlife or equine subjects. She was the daughter of noted magazine illustr ...

(1950-2000) * Stephen D. Nash (b. 1954) *

David Nurney David Ian "Dave" Nurney (born 28 May 1959 in Edmonton, London) is an English bird artist. Career Nurney illustrated birds from an early age. In 1981, he received his diploma in communication design (graphics and illustration) at the Epsom School ...

(b. 1959) * David Quinn (b. 1959) *

Mark Upton Mark Upton (born 1964) is an English artist who specialises in portraits of animals, particularly horses and falcons. His main media are oil paint, watercolour and pencil. Early life Mark Lundy Upton was born in Wiltshire, England in 1964. ...

(b. 1964) * Diana Joseph *

Sue Coleman Sue Coleman (born March 1947) is a Wildlife painter from England who moved to Vancouver Island, in Canada in 1967. Coleman is known for her watercolour paintings in which she uses a controversial Indigenous art style. She also paints west-coast ...

* J.S.Munnolli (b. 1940) Forerunners of modern wildlife art sculpture include: * Rembrandt Bugatti (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 Tessa Pullan from Rutland, (born 1953) is an English sculptor. Biography Pullan was from 1971 to 1974 in France apprenticed to the sculptor John Skeaping and then gained a diploma from 1974 to 1977 at the City and Guilds of London Art School. ...

(b. 1953) * John Rattenbury Skeaping (1901-1980) * Jo Walker

Gallery

File:Snyders Dogs fighting.jpg, ''Dogs fighting'' by Frans Snyders, who probably left the landscape background to another kind of specialist. File:Edwards' Dodo.jpg, ''

Edwards Edwards may refer to: People * Edwards (surname) * Edwards family, a prominent family from Chile * Edwards Barham (1937-2014), a former member of the Louisiana State Senate * Edwards Pierrepont (1817–1892), an American attorney, jurist, and ora ...

Dodo The dodo (''Raphus cucullatus'') is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest genetic relative was the also-extinct Rodrigues solitaire. The ...

'' (1626) by Savery; Natural History Museum, 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 Pierce Tempest (1653–1717) was an English printseller, best known for the series ''Cryes of the City of London''. Life Born at Tong, Yorkshire, in July 1653, he was the sixth son of Henry Tempest of Tong by his wife, Mary Bushall, and brother o ...

. File:Jan Weenix 003.jpg, A typical composition of dead game from 1692 by Jan Weenix, probably an

overdoor An "overdoor" (or "Supraporte" as in German, or "sopraporte" as in Italian) is a painting, bas-relief or decorative panel, generally in a horizontal format, that is set, typically within ornamental mouldings, over a door, or was originally intend ...

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

Wawel Castle The Wawel Royal Castle (; ''Zamek Królewski na Wawelu'') and the Wawel Hill on which it sits constitute the most historically and culturally significant site in Poland. A fortified residency on the Vistula River in Kraków, it was established on ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

. File:Young tiger playing with its mother.jpg,

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

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

. File:LandseerMonarch1851.jpg, Landseer's '' Monarch of the Glen'' (1851);

National Museum of Scotland The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland, with collections relating to Scottish antiquities, culture and history, and the adjacent Royal Scottish Museum (opened in ...

. File:Common foxes in the snow.jpg, ''Common foxes in the snow'' (1893) by

. 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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