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Last Name Baines

Given Name John Thomas

alt. Names J. T. B. ; Thomas Baynes ;

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Year born 1820 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England

Year died 1875

Place of death Durban, Natal

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Education apprentice to coach painter. ornamental and heraldic painting from William Carr

Country of Activity South Africa

Worked for R. Godlonton & Edward Irving: Narrative of the Kaffir War of 1850-2; T. B.: Gold Regions South-East Africa ; J. T. B.: Draughtsman to General Somerset (1852) ; Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society 1857

Patronage artist for British Army ; Royal Geographical Society London ;

Collaborators photographer James Chapman during joint expeditions in South Africa ;

Techniques landscape, cartographical, marine, botanical, and zoological painting, oil, watercolour, and drawing ;

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Baines_Baobab.jpg ;

Archival sources British Museum Natural History, London ; https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/baines-john-thomas.html ;

Published sources AKL 6 1992: 327 ; Judith Magee: Art of Nature (London 2009: 169f., 188-193 & 249-50) ; M. Stevenson: T. B.-Artist in the Service of Science in South Africa (London 1999) ; Cameron 1981: 45, 50, 56-61, 66-67, 70-1, 84, 87, 94, 102, 206, 208 ;

other 1842-53 to Cape Colony, Africa. Expeditions to: Nile Valley with cartographer J. Arrosmith ; 1854-6 North Australia with Sir Augustus Gregory ; Zambesi 1858 with Livingstone.

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