| LC control no. | no2017148901 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hart, William Matthew, 1830-1908 |
| Variant(s) | Hart, W., 1830-1908 Hart, William M., 1830-1908 Hart, William, 1830-1908 |
| See also | Assistant to: Gould, John, 1804-1881 |
| Other standard no. | 91645793 Q8015234 500028540 |
| Birth date | 1830-05-12 |
| Death date | 1908-01-20 |
| Place of birth | Limerick (Limerick, Ireland) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Drawing Watercolor painting Natural history Illustration of books Zoological illustration Ornithological illustration Prints--Coloring |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Watercolorists Lithographers Illustrators Scientific illustrators |
| Special note | Not the same as: Hart, William, 1823-1894, no2002032862 |
| Found in | Gould, John. A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds. Supplement, 1887 plates (most signed: J. Gould & W. Hart, del. et lith.; some signed: W. Hart, del. et lith.) Sharpe, Richard Bowdler. An analytical index to the works of the late John Gould, 1893, via HathiTrust, November 8, 2017: page xxi ("Mr. Hart commenced working for Mr. Gould in the summer of 1851, making the patterns for the 'Humming-birds' and colouring the metallic portions of the plates. He commenced to draw the plates on stone from the twenty-second part of the 'Birds of Great Britain,' and continued to do so till all the works were completed") Jackson, Christine E. Dictionary of bird artists of the world, 1999: pages 274-275 (Hart, William Matthew, 1830-1908; Irish painter and lithographer of birds, colorer of bird prints, employed by John Gould from 1851-1881 and by R.B. Sharpe after 1881 to complete the work on books Gould left unfinished, then on Sharpe's own titles; born Limerick; lived in Camberwell district, London; worked on 2,000 plates of birds, lithographing them (from 1871/1872), coloring or supervising the coloring of them from 1851 and making the original watercolors (approximately 1881 onwards); died 20 January 1908, aged 77; also did oil paintings of birds and fish; worked on Gould's books about hummingbirds, trogons, sun-birds, and the birds of Great Britain, Europe, New Guinea and Asia and probably assisted with coloring the plates in the book on Australia; worked also for D.G. Elliot on monograph on ant-thrushes) page 274 (in entry for Hart, William M., 1823-1894: "Often incorrectly credited with being Gould's assistant, who was William Matthew Hart") Houfe, Simon. The dictionary of 19th century British book illustrators and caricaturists, 1996 (Hart, William Matthew, 1830-1908, landscape painter, born Paisley, 31 March 1830, and emigrated to the United States; member of the National Academy and president of the Brooklyn Academy of Design; "He made a number of illustrations for the books of John Gould" [this resource conflates William Hart, also known as William M. Hart or William McDougal Hart, born Paisley, Scotland, 31 March 1823, died Mount Vernon, N.Y., 1894, with William Matthew Hart, born Limerick, Ireland, 1830, died London, 1908; see Jackson, C.E. Dictionary of bird artists of the world, 1999, cited above]) Jackson, Christine E. "Hart, William Matthew," in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online, November 8, 2017 (Hart, William Matthew; born 1830.03.31 [sic] (according to Houfe), Limerick, Ireland, died 1908.01.20, London; gender: male; British bird painter, colorist, lithographer; employed by John Gould, first as colorist on the Monograph of the Trochilidae, 1851, then from 1872, as assistant to H.C. Richter in the task of lithographing the pictures of birds in Gould's works; after Gould's death in 1881, R.B. Sharpe completed his unfinished works and commissioned Hart to paint the birds, prepare the lithographs and supervise and complete the coloring of the plates) Jackson, Christine E., and Maureen Lambourne. "Bayfield--John Gould's unknown colorist," in Archives of natural history, v. 17, pt. 2 (1990), pages 189-200: page 195 ("In 1851, when [Gabriel] Bayfield was aged sixty-nine, William Matthew Hart was engaged to do the specialist job of painting the metallic parts of the Hummingbirds and played an increasing role in colouring, taking over in 1861 as the man responsible for [Gould's] colouring team") England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980, via Ancestry Library Edition, November 13, 2017 (William Matthew Hart; gender: male; birth date: 12 May 1830; birth place: Limerick, Limerick, England [sic; erroneous for Ireland]; christening place: Limerick, Limerick, Ireland) England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970, via Ancestry Library Edition, November 13, 2017 (Hart, William Matthew, son of William Matthew and Sarah [Hart]; date of birth: May 12th, 1830; place of birth: Castle Barracks, Limerick, Ireland) Union List of Artists' Names Online, November 13, 2017 (Hart, William Matthew (Irish painter, 1830-1908); ID: 500028540) Wikipedia, November 13, 2017 (William Matthew Hart (1830-1908); English bird illustrator and lithographer who worked for John Gould) Wikidata, November 13, 2017 (William Matthew Hart (Q8015234); English bird illustrator and lithographer; also known as William Hart) |
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