Henrik Grönvold

Henrik Grönvold ( born September 6, 1858 in Præstø, Denmark, † March 23, 1940 in Bedford, England) was a Danish naturalist and artist who has become known primarily for his bird drawings.

Life and work

Grönvold was the youngest of five children of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Peter Levin Grönvold and Wilhelmine Marie Cathrine Larsen. After his schooling in Præstø he completed a carpentry apprenticeship model in Næstved. Here he met the chemist and ornithologist J. Baagøe, with whom he went hunting and natural history studies for operation. Grönvolds ornithological records were 1893 in Baagøes book Næstvedegnens Fugle. Ornithologiske Iagttagelser above Notitser published. From 1880 studied Grönvold mechanical drawing at the Technical School in Copenhagen. He then worked as a technical illustrator for the artillery of the Royal Danish Army and 1891 in the biological research station in Copenhagen, where he fishes. In August 1892 he left Denmark and emigrated to England. In August 1893 he married in London the Swede Josephine Wilhelmine Maria Hillström who died in 1935. Grönvold was appointed at the Natural History Museum in London, where he worked as a bird taxidermist to 1895. In the same year he accompanied William Robert Ogilvie - Grant on a journey to the Portuguese Selvagens. After this expedition Grönvold worked in an unofficial capacity as bird artist for the museum. Only once he left in the following decades, London, when he at the International Ornithological Congress in Berlin took part in 1910.

Grönvolds illustrations appeared widely in scientific journals such as the Proceedings and Transactions of the Zoological Society, Novitates Zoologicae, The Ibis and Avicultural Magazine. In these publications, he was, among other boards for William Robert Ogilvie - Grant, George Albert Boulenger, Oldfield Thomas and Walter Rothschild. Grönvold recorded especially birds and eggs as well as rare and newly discovered species from many parts of the world. Frequently he made lithographs. His eggs panels include some illustrations of Riesenalkeiern, which he produced for Alfred Newton. In addition to his bird drawings he illustrated for Walter Rothschild oil paintings of monkeys, which are in the collection of the Natural History Museum.

The illustrated by Grönvold books include The Birds of Africa (1896-1912) by George Ernest Shelley, Walter Lawry Buller's books on the birds of New Zealand (A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Manual of the Birds of New Zealand and the Supplement to the History of the Birds of New Zealand), Extinct Birds ( 1907) by Walter Rothschild, Birds of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1907-1908 ) by Arthur Gardiner Butler, Birds of South South America ( 1912) by Wyndham Wentworth Brabourne, The British Warblers (1907-1914) by Henry Eliot Howard, Illustrations of the game birds and water fowl of South America (1915-1917) by Harry Kirke Swann, A Monograph of the Pheasants (1918-1922) by Charles William Beebe, The Birds of the Malay Peninsula (1929-1976) by Herbert Christopher Robinson, Les Oiseaux de L' Indochine Française (1931 ) by Jean Théodore Delacour and Pierre Jabouille. For the twelve volumes of the Birds of Australia (1910-1928) work of Gregory Mathews he made 600 hand-colored plates. His last work was 800 illustrations for the book The Birds of Tropical West Africa by David Armitage Bannerman, published in 1930-1951.

Dedikationsnamen

Gregory Mathews in 1912 named the South American subspecies of gull-billed terns ( Gelochelidon groenvoldi nilotica ) in honor of Grönvold.

Gallery

Gallery with illustrations by Henrik Grönvold (some extinct species and subspecies ):

Lord Howe morepork from Gregory Mathews Birds of Australia 1910-1928

Pink-headed duck from the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society Volume 18 1907

Lord Howe Gerygone from Gregory Mathews Birds of Australia 1910-1928

Lord Howe Grey Fantail from Gregory Mathews Birds of Australia 1910-1928

Mauritius parrot from Walter Rothschild: Extinct Birds 1907

Rodrigues Parrot from Walter Rothschild: Extinct Birds 1907

Lord Howe Ziegensittich from Gregory Mathews Birds of Australia, 1910-1928