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Last Name Thorburn

Given Name Archibald

alt. Names A. T. ; Thornburn ;

Marriage Constance Mudie in c. 1902

Children

Year born 1860 in Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland

Year died 1935

Place of death Hascombe, Surrey, grave in Busbridge, Godalming

Father's occupation 5th son of Robert Thorburn (1818-1885), portrait miniaturist to Queen Victoria

Relatives

Education zoology ; at Dalkeith & Edinburgh, then St John's Wood School of Art London; lith. -> Joseph Wolf

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for Lord Lilford: Coloured Figs Birds British Isles (1885-98) ; J. E. Harting: Sketches Bird Life (1882) ; W. F. Swaysland: Familiar Wild Birds (1883-88) ; HE Dresser:Hist. Birds Europe ; John Guille Millais (1865-1931) ; Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer (1882-1964) & Eva M. Godman (1xxx-1965) ; Thorburn: British Birds (1915-18) & British Mammals (1920-1) & Observer Book of British Birds (1937) ; George Albemarle Bertie Dewar (1862-1934) ; Georg Friedrich Paul Matschie (1861-1926) ; John Guille Millais (1865-1931) ;

Patronage Royal Academy (regular exhibitions) ; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Christmas cards1899-1935, Vice pres.) ; Brit. Mus.Nat.Hist., London ;

Collaborators ->J. Wolf ; ->C. Whymper ; ->Keulemans ; L. Paul Robert ; lithographer ->W. Greve ;

Techniques ornithological, mammal, and animal drawing, watercolour, painting, and chromolithography ;

Sample(s) www.oiseaux.net/photos/archibald.thorburn/ ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Thorburn

Archival sources https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/luxury/astor-family-auctioning-best-collection-sporting-art-will-ever/ ;

Published sources AKL ; ThB 33 1939: 83 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 140, 1105, 2734, 2819 & 4128 ; Sawyer 1971: 192 ; Skipwith 1979: 168-175 ; Chr. E. Jackson: Bird Illustrators 1975: chapter 13) ; Complete Illustrated T's Birds (1997) ; Gordon Corbet: T's mammals ; Dance 1989 ; Magee 2009: 199, 210 & 244f. ; Robb-Smith 1951: 6 & #20 ; Mengel 1980: 58 ; Lederer 2019: chapter 7;

other Since 1902 living in High Leybourne in Hascombe, Surrey, England.

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