John Gerrard Keulemans
John Gerrard Keulemans , born in 1842 with Rotterdam and dead the March 29th 1912 with London, is a painter and a Illustrateur Dutch.
Keulemans is famous for its Lithographie S of Oiseau X.
It buys a plantation in Africa with an aim of settling there but its project goes bankrupt. Keulemans returns in Europe and becomes illustrator; it is often assisted by his wife (even if this one is hardly mentioned). It is constant in this new orientation by Hermann Schlegel, director of the natural history museum of Natural history of Leyde. This one sends it on mission in West Africa in 1864. To its return in Europe in 1866, Schlegel recommends it to the British Museum. Keulemans settles then in Great Britain.
Its observations on the nectariniidés in Africa, enable him to illustrate with many talents the work of George Ernest Shelley (1840-1910), Monograph off the Nectarinidae (1876).
It off takes part in 27 volumes of the Catalog the Birds of the British Museum (of 1874 with 1898). It is a very prolific author: he carries out also 73 boards for the work of Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915), Monograph off the Hornbills (1887-1892), 120 for that of Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909), Monograph one Kingfishers (1868-1871), 149 for Henry Seebohm (1832-1895), Monograph one Thrushes (1902) and 84 for Osbert Salvin (1835-1898), Biologia Cantral Americana (1879-1904), for Henry Eeles Dresser (1838-1915), Birds off Europe (1871-1896) and for Sir Walter Lawry Buller (1838-1906), has History off the Birds off New Zealand (1838-1906). It illustrates also certain scientific articles, in particular for the Transactions off the Zoological Society off London .
The History off the Birds off New Zealand , of Sir Buller, is printed in 500 specimens with 36 lithographic boards colored one by one with the hand. Success is such, that one second edition is initiated including more details (in particular synonymies, distribution of the species) and in particular the description of new species. The lithographies of the first edition being lost, Keulemans redraws all. This second edition appears in thirteen deliveries between July 1887 and December 1888 (and will be increased later by two new volumes in 1905 and 1906). Pulling is of 1.000 specimens and 500 for the supplements.
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