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Last Name Brookshaw

Given Name George

alt. Names G. B. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1751

Year died 1823

Place of death Greenwich near London

Father's occupation

Relatives Richard Brookshaw (1736- c. 1804) (brother)

Education by his brother Richard, a professional engraver, specializing in engraved portrait after paintings by other artists

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for the Pomona Britannica (1812), displaying 256 fruit varieties on 90 huge hand-colored plates 58x46cm;

Patronage by the English Royal family, for which he started out making cabinets and painted pieces of furniture; esp. George IV

Collaborators

Techniques botanical and pomological engraving, drawing, aquatint, and mezzotint ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) http://www.audubonart.com/01_bro_01.asp ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brookshaw and further weblinks there ;

Archival sources http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=1300&-max=25 ;

Published sources George Brookshaw: The Book of Fruits. The Complete Pomona Britannica (Cologne 2005) ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ;

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