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Last Name Collins
Given Name Charles
alt. Names C. C. ;
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Year born 1680 or 1660 in Dublin
Year died 1744
Place of death London
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Country of Activity Ireland
Worked for Carington Bowles: Icones Avium com Nominibus Anglicis ; Thomas Pennant: British Zoology (1761-1769) ;
Patronage Bird Painter to the Royal Society ;
Collaborators engraver H. Fletcher ; engraver J. Mynde ; engraver Peter Mazell ;
Techniques animal, mammal and ornithological drawing, oil painting, watercolour painting ; gouache ;
Sample(s) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Charles_Collins_-_Exotic_Pheasants_and_Other_Birds_-_WGA05161.jpg ;
Archival sources Victoria & Albert Museum London, Cecil Higgins Museum Bedford
Published sources AKL 20 1998: 326 ; DNB ; Jackson 1989: 108 & 121 ; Jackson 1994: 50-53 ; Pinault 1992: 201 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ;
other Further Place of Activity: England. Got known as an animal painter, besides his still lifes, cabinets of curiosities, and life-sized birds; cf. www.rubylane.com/item/370980-290/Vintage-Pair-Reproduction-Bird-Prints
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