William Matthew Hart
William Matthew Hart (1830-1908) was an Irish-born English bird illustrator and lithographer who worked for John Gould. Hart started medical training, but was unable to complete his studies for financial reasons. He began working for Gould in 1851, beginning an association that was to last thirty years.
William Matthew Hart
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- William Matthew Hart
- Born
- 1830
- Birthplace
- Limerick, Ireland
- Died
- 1908
- Place of death
- Camberwell, London
- Occupation
- Illustrator and lithographer
- Nationality
- Ireland.
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William Matthew Hart (1830-1908) was an Irish-born English bird illustrator and lithographer who worked for John Gould. Hart started medical training, but was unable to complete his studies for financial reasons. He began working for Gould in 1851, beginning an association that was to last thirty years.
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Early during this period he made the patterns for the lithographic plates for Gould's work on hummingbirds, as well as working on The Birds of Great Britain with Henry Constantine Richter. After Gould's death in 1881, Hart was employed by Richard Bowdler Sharpe of the British Museum to complete Gould's work on the birds of New Guinea and to produce illustrations for Sharpe's monograph on the birds-of-paradise.
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• Name — William Matthew Hart • Born — 1830 • Birthplace — Limerick, Ireland • Died — 1908 • Place of death — Camberwell, London • Occupation — Illustrator and lithographer
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- 1.Christine E. Jackson: Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World. Antique Collectors Club, 1999, p 274-275.
- 2.Roger J. Lederer: The Art of the Bird: The History of Ornithological Art Through Forty Artists, André Deutsch Ltd., 2019, , 2019, p 114–118
- 3.Olsen, Penny. Feather and brush: three centuries of Australian bird art. CSIRO Publishing. 2001. 978-0-643-06547-5.
- 4.Australian Museum. William Matthew Hart (1830-1908).
- 5.Sharpe, R. Bowdler. Monograph of the Paradiseidæ or Birds of Paradise and Ptilonorhinchidæ, or Bower-Birds. Henry Sotheran. 1. 1891–1898.
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