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William John Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist, and artist.
William Swainson (St. Mary Newington, Londres, 8 de outubro de 1789 — Vale de Hutt, Nova Zelândia, 6 de dezembro de 1855) foi um ornitólogo e artista britânico. [1]
Há 4 dias · Although William Swainson’s career reached its zenith in the 1830s, the misfortunes of his latter days cannot diminish the beauty of the many illustrations he so painstakingly produced in happier times-a legacy that survives in museums and collections around the world.
William John Swainson was born in London in 1789, the son of John Timothy Swainson, a customs collector, keen amateur zoologist and a founding Fellow of the Linnean Society, whose collection of British insects and shells inspired in William a passion for natural history.
William Swainson was a very capable zoologist and illustrator whose career suffered from his lack of formal training and his propensity for too wholeheartedly adopting theories of dubious worth.
William John Swainson was a British naturalist and an artist. He is most known for his beautiful colorful drawings of nature, especially of shells, flowers and birds which he himself collected and observed during his life.
William John Swainson, Fellow of the Linnean Society and Fellow of the Royal Society (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, entomologist and artist. Life. Swainson was born in Dover Place, St. Mary Newington, London.
