G. J. B. ; G. J. Brojnowski / Gracius Joseph Browne ;
Jane Smith, daughter of a whaling captain, c.1863
six sons and a daughter, among them son Leopold (1871-1937)
1837 in Walichnowy, central Poland
1913
Mosman in Sydney, Australia
landowner and military officer.
studied languages, classics and art at Munich University
Australia
The birds of Australia (1890-1891) ; The Cockatoos & Nestors of Australia and New Zealand (1888) ; The Birds and Mammals of Australia (New South Wales Dept. of Public Instruction: teaching material for schools) ;
natural, zoological, mammal, and ornithological drawing and painting
www.oiseaux.net/photos/gracius.broinowski/
AKL XIV 1996: 342 ; A. H. Chisholm in Australian Dictionary of Biography 3 1969: 239 ;
Further Places of Activity: Poland (born there) and Germany (educated), in 1857 he joined the crew of a windjammer bound for Australia, leaving the ship at Portland, Victoria, working for a publisher in Melbourne, selling and promoting his paintings, and travelling widely in eastern Australia, since 1880 in Sydney as a Ornithologist.
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