John Gerrard Keulemans

John Gerrard Keulemans ( born June 8, 1842 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands than John Gerardus Keulemans, † March 29 1912 in Ilford, United Kingdom) was a Dutch painter and illustrator. Keulemans was famous for its bird lithographs.

Biography

Keulemans was an avid nature lover even as a boy and wanted to be a researcher. Hermann Schlegel, the former director of the Imperial Museum of Natural History in Leiden, promoted him and sent him in 1864 on a business trip to West Africa. On his return to Europe in 1866 recommended him flail for the British Museum. In 1867 he married in Voorschoten Engelina Johanna Spoor, who often helped him in his work. From 1869 Keulemans worked in the UK, where he illustrated the journal Ibis bird of the British Ornithologists ' Union and the journal Proceedings and Transactions of the Zoological Society of London on a regular basis. His studies on the sunbirds in West Africa enabled him, along with other talented illustrators to illustrate the work Monograph of the Nectarinidae (1876 ) by George Ernest Shelley ( 1840-1910 ). After the death of his first wife in 1876 he married 1877 in London, the Irish Arabella Miley. Overall, went out of his marriages produced 14 children.

From 1874 to 1898 he worked on the 27 volumes of the Catalogue of the Birds of the Natural History Museum (formerly British Museum of Natural History ). A prolific illustrator, he created 73 boards for the work Monograph of Hornbills ( 1887-1892 ) by Daniel Giraud Elliot ( 1835-1915 ), 120 tablets for Monograph on King Fisher ( 1868-1871 ) by Richard Bowdler Sharpe ( 1847 to 1909 ) and 149 panels for Monograph on Thrushes (1902 ) for Henry Seebohm ( 1832-1895 ). Further illustrated by Keulemans works are different volumes of the Biologia Centrali - Americana (1879-1904) by Osbert Salvin (1835-1898), Birds of Europe (1871-1896) by Henry Eeles Dresser (1838-1915), A History of the Birds of New Zealand (1873, 1887-1888, 1905-1906 ) by Sir Walter Lawry Buller ( 1838-1906 ), The avifauna of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands ( 1893-1900 ) by Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ( 1868 - 1937) and Extinct Birds ( 1907) by Lionel Walter Rothschild. The work A History of the Birds of New Zealand, first appeared in an edition of 500 copies. The 35 lithographic plates were hand-colored by Keulemans. Due to the success a second, expanded edition was published, which contains more details about synonyms and dissemination as well as the description of new species. Since the lithographic stones for the first edition had been destroyed, they were all newly drawn by Keulemans. The second edition was published in thirteen parts between July 1887 and December, 1888. Though 1000 copies of the second edition were produced, were 251 copies in the sinking of two ships lost. Appeared in 1906 a two-volume Supplement in an edition of 500 copies.

Keulemans made ​​remarkable lithographs of now-extinct animal species, including the Salomon dove, the Huia, the Great Auk, the Stephen panties, the Prachtmoho, the Ohrbüschelmoho, the Guadalupe Storm-Petrel, the Weißwangenkauz and the Falkland fox. All of these lithographs are now in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Gallery

Gallery with lithographs by John Gerrard Keulemans (some extinct species ):

Stephen panties from Walter Buller: A History of the Birds of New Zealand, 1888

Ohrbüschelmoho from Walter Rothschild: The Avifauna of Laysan, 1893-1900

Prachtmoho from Walter Rothschild: The Avifauna of Laysan, 1893-1900

Weißwangenkauz of George William Rowley: Ornithological Miscellany, Vol I, 1875

Falkland fox from St. George Mivart: Dogs, Jackals, Wolves, and Foxes, 1890

Rußmamo from Walter Rothschild: The Avifauna of Laysan, 1893-1900