Historic Bird Portraits

[GaleriaPetPortraits]

This thread is a series of historic bird portraits (mostly parrots!) and related topics, including...
*natural history prints
*historic fine art paintings
*ancient hieroglyphs and petroglyphs
*videos on art and artists

This will be the last (for now!) of Edward Lear. It's a very nice little mash-up of his many styles... bird illustration, classic landscapes, nonsense rhymes...
My faves are always the birds.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMiRMDK7G7g"]Edward Lear 愛德華李爾 1812-1888 Painter Draughtsman Illustrator Writer English - YouTube[/ame]​

 

[Rival_of_the_Rickeybird]

This thread is a series of historic bird portraits (mostly parrots!), including...
*natural history prints
*historic fine art paintings
*ancient hieroglyphs and petroglyphs


Today, a bit of departure...
I give you "Woodstock", from the Peanuts Comic Strip by Charles Schultz.
To our knowledge, he wasn't modeled after a real bird or person, but came about as a little being whose evolution was just about becoming a best friend (Snoopy's), with foibles, loving kindness, and faithulness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_(Peanuts)

More like this one.

 

[lplummer52]

From one of my favorite animal artists Sir Edwin Landseer.

 

[GaleriaPetPortraits]

Oh, wow... I was not familiar with him. Thank you!

I found this...
He had a fabulously sentimental touch with his realism. He was magical with animals... birds... and more. And much more.
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iFnC0ESVnI"]Sir Edwin Landseer - YouTube[/ame]