Francis Bauer, Joseph Banks, Everard Home and others
1983; Edinburgh University Press; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3366/anh.1983.11.2.209
ISSN1755-6260
Autores Tópico(s)Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
ResumoAlthough Francis Bauer (1758—1840) is widely acknowledged as one of the finest botanical artists that Europe has produced and the works he illustrated are amongst the most celebrated of their time (Blunt & Stearn, 1950;Nissen, 1951;Stearn, 1960;Henrey, 1975), remarkably few details of his life have appeared. This is all the more surprising in that he spent half a century in England as the friend and colleague of many of the outstanding men of the period, including Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Everard Home, Robert Brown and John Lindley. He has even been passed over by The Dictionary ofNational Biography, for which he certainly qualified,1 and by Boase (1965), so that, even today, one of the most useful accounts of his life remains the obituary published by the Linnean Society in 1841.2 Franz Andreas Bauer, his equally famous brother, Ferdinard Lucas, and another brother, Joseph, also an artist, were born in Feldsberg, Austria,2-3 known since 1919 as Valtice, Czechoslovakia. Their father, who was court painter to the Count of Liechtenstein, died when the boys were young so that they received their training from their mother.4 Franz's first published drawing is said to be in von Storck (1771) which certainly has a plate but without any indication of the artist.2 At one point, Franz and Ferdinand began working in Vienna with Baron Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin and it was through knowing his son, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, that Franz came to'live in England. In 1788, the two men were making
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