Elizabeth Gwillim (bird artist)

Lady
Elizabeth Gwillim
Born 1763
Died 21 December 1807, age 44
Resting place St. Mary's Church, Madras, India
Nationality British
Known for Watercolours of Indian birds
Spouse(s) Sir Henry Gwillim
Chestnut bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus)

Lady Elizabeth Symonds Gwillim (21 April 1763 – 21 December 1807) was an artist married to Sir Henry Gwillim, Puisne Judge[1] at the Madras high court until 1808. Lady Gwillim painted a series of about 200 watercolours of Indian birds. Produced about 20 years before John James Audubon, her work has been acclaimed for its accuracy and natural postures as they were drawn from observations of the birds in life. She also painted fishes and flowers. About 121 paintings from were obtained from a private dealer by Casey A. Wood and these are held in the Blacker-Wood Library of McGill University. Lady Gwillim died on 21 December 1807 of unknown causes and was buried at St. Mary's Church in Madras. Her husband resigned the next year and returned to England with the paintings.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Prinsep, Charles C. (1885). Record of services of the Honourable East India Company's Civil Servants in the Madras Presidency. London: Trubner and Co. p. 34.
  2. ↑ Wood, Casey A. (1925). "Lady [Elizabeth] Gwillim—Artist and Ornithologist". Ibis 67 (3): 594–599. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1925.tb02943.x.
  3. ↑ Subramanya, S. (1994). "Paintings of Indian birds by Lady Elizabeth Gwillim at McGill University, Canada". Newsletter for Birdwatchers 34 (4): 74–76.
  4. ↑ Wood, Casey A. (1927). "Lady [Elizabeth] Gwillim. Artist and ornithologist". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31 (2): 486–489.

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