John Gerrard Keulemans

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Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (June 8, 1842, Rotterdam - March 29, 1912, Essex) was a Dutch bird illustrator.

[edit] Biography and Work

Keulemans worked in England from 1869. He regularly provided illustrations for The Ibis and The Proceedings of the Zoological Society. He illustrated many important bird books, including Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand (1873), William Vincent Legge's Birds of Ceylon (1880), Daniel Giraud Elliot's Monograph of the Hornbills (1887-1892), Richard Bowdler Sharpe's Monograph on Kingfishers (1868-1871), Henry Seebohm's Monograph on Thrushes (1902), Osbert Salvin's Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879-1904), and Henry Eeles Dresser's Birds of Europe (1871-1896). He also spent some time collecting birds in West Africa.

Keulemans has painted remarkable pictures of extinct birds, like the Choiseul Crested Pigeon, Kangaroo Island Emu, Huia, Stephens Island Wren, Hawaii Oo, Hawaii Mamo, Oahu Oo, Guadalupe Petrel, and the Laughing Owl. All these paintings can be seen in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.