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Last Name Branston

Given Name Allen Robert

alt. Names A. R. B. ; Robert Branston ;

Marriage

Children wood engraver Robert Edward Branston (1803-1877) ; engraver Frederick William Branston (1805-1849)

Year born 1778 in King's Lynn, Norfolk

Year died 1827

Place of death Brompton, London

Father's occupation painter and heraldic and copper engraver

Relatives engraver George Wilmot Bonner (1796-1836) (nephew) ; wood engraver and lithographer Robert Branston

Education taught by his father; self-taught in wood engraving

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for J. Lindley ; James d Carle Sowerby ; John C. Loudon: Encyclopaedia of Plants Britain (1829) ; Robert Bloomfield: Wild Flowers (1806) ; Edward Turner Bennett (1795-1836) ; Delabere Pritchett Blaine (1768-1845) ;The Naturalist (London 1851-58) ;

Patronage

Collaborators James de Carle Sowerby I ;

Techniques natural, botanical, and zoological painting, drawing, wood engraving, black-and-white line engraving, xylography ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Robert_Branston ,

Published sources AKL13 1996: 651 ; ThB4 1910: 539 ; DNB 1886 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 314f., 387 & 4706 ; Cleevely 1974: 494 ;

other 1797 to Bath, Avon ; 1799 c. to London.

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