Peter Brown (bird artist)

Peter Brown (active 1758-1799) was a Danish natural history illustrator who worked mainly in London, England. His most important work was New Illustrations of Zoology (1776), published in London. He was an associate of naturalists Thomas Pennant and Joseph Banks. Brown's illustrations included birds, botanical subjects and insects. Though primarily an illustrator, he is credited with scientific descriptions of some species, at least one being the Clymene Moth (Haploa clymene), a brightly-marked North American moth of the family Arctiidae.

Examples of the botanical illustrations of Peter Brown can be found at the Natural History Museum, London, dated to circa 1760.

References and external links

• Blunt, W. (1951). The Art of Botanical Illustration. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 151.
• BugGuide.net, Haploa clymene. Accessed 3 June 2007
• polybiblio.com--accessed 3 June 2007
• National Gallery of Australia--accessed 3 June 2007
• Lepidoptera and some other life forms, account for genus Haploa--accessed 3 June 2007
• Works by or about Peter Brown (bird artist) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)