19 October 1864?C21 August 1915  Related Paintings of Thomas Pakenham :. | Dublin harbour with the domed Custom House in the background | General Lazare Hoche the 28-year-old | Thomas Street,Dubli the Scene of Rober Emmet-s execution in 1803 | Charles James Fox,Leader of the Whig Opposition and Grattan-s most important ally in London | Robert Emmet 24-year-old brother of Thomas Addis Emmet |
Related Artists:
Jean-Louis prevost le jeune
Noitel circa 1740-after 1810
martinus rorbye

John Gould
1804 - 1881. (Born Sept. 14, 1804, Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, England. Died Feb. 3, 1881, London) was an English ornithologist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" was pivotal in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, though they are barely mentioned in Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species.Gould was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, the son of a gardener, and the boy probably had a scanty education. Shortly afterwards his father obtained a position on an estate near Guildford, Surrey, and then in 1818 became foreman in the Royal Gardens of Windsor. The young Gould started training as a gardener, being employed under his father at Windsor from 1818 to 1824, and he was subsequently a gardener at Ripley Castle in Yorkshire. He became an expert in the art of taxidermy and in 1824 he set himself up in business in London as a taxidermist,