Archibald Thorburn
Born in Lasswade, Edinburgh and the LothiansBorn on 31st of May 1860
Died on 9th of October 1935
Born 1860. Died 1935 - Scottish bird artist.
Studied at St John’s Wood School of Art, London. Painted most of the plates of the Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Isles (1885-97). Published British Birds (1915-16) and British Mammals (1920). His paintings were used in Observer’s Book of British Birds (1937).
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