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Last Name Richter

Given Name Henry Constantine

alt. Names H. C. R. ; Heinrich Richter ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1821 in Brompton, London, Great Britain

Year died 1902

Place of death Lisson Grove area

Father's occupation landscape portrait painter and engraver Henry James Richter (1772-1857)

Relatives Charlotte Sophia Richter (mother) ; artist & sculptor John Augustus Richter (grandfather) ; miniature painter Henrietta Sophia (sister) ; ...

Education

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for George Robert Gray: Genera birds (1844-9) ; ->John Gould (1804-1881): Birds of Australia (1848), A Monograph of the Macropodidae or Family of Kangaroos (1841-1842) & Mammals of Australia (1845-1863); Family of Toucans (1852-1854) [=illustrations of the family of ramphastidae]; Birds Asia & Kangaroos (1841-1842) ; Richard Owen: Extinct Wingless Birds (1878-1879) ;

Patronage

Collaborators lithographer Charles Hullmandel ; artist ->Joseph Wolf ; artist W. M. Hart ; colourist Gabriel Bayfield ;

Techniques zoological, mammal, and ornithological watercolour, drawing, and lithography ;

Sample(s) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Thylacinus_cynocephalus_%28Gould%29.jpg ;

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Constantine_Richter ; https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/richter-henry-constantine.html ;

Published sources Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 1661f., 4744 & 4788 ; David Knight: Zoological Illustration 1977; Dance 1989: 124f, 219; V.Chansigaud 2009:118; Catherine Jackson: H. C. Richter–John Gould's unknown bird artist, Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 9,1 (1978): 10-14.

other Came from a family of renowned artists and artisans.

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