(27 November 1820 ?C 8 May 1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia. Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Baines was apprenticed to a coach painter at an early age. When he was 22 he left England for South Africa aboard the "Olivia" (captained by a family friend William Roome) and worked for a while in Cape Town as a scenic and portrait artist, and as official war artist during the so-called Eighth Frontier War for the British Army.
In 1855 Baines joined Augustus Gregory??s 1855?C1857 Royal Geographical Society sponsored expedition across northern Australia as official artist and storekeeper. The expedition??s purpose was to explore the Victoria River district in the north-west and to evaluate the entire northern area of Australia in terms of its suitability for colonial settlement. Related Paintings of Thomas Baines :. | Action between HMS | Aborigines near the mouth of the Victoria River | Thomas Baines with Aborigines near the mouth of the Victoria River, N.T. | ett av livingstones storsta ogonblick i afrika | Thomas Baines with Aborigines near the mouth of the Victoria River | Related Artists:
John Melhuish Strudwick1849-1937
British
John Melhuish Strudwick Gallery
Daniel Ridgeway Knight1839-1924
Daniel Ridgeway Knight Gallery
Daniel Ridgway Knight was born on March 15,1839 in Pennsylvania. He studied and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, were he was a classmate of Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins. In 1861, he went to Paris to study at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, and to apprentice in the atelier of Charles-Gabriel-Gleyere.
Pierre-Paul Prud honFrench 1758-1823 Pierre Paul Prud'hon Gallery
